Word: failing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy applause more than productive partnership. But the relative sum assigned is a symbol of priorities. Is the priority for Poland unchanged? Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's success may depend on his ability to deal with Poland's economic situation -- quickly. Can the U.S. really afford to let him fail for lack of assistance? It is odd, to say the least, that George Bush appears to have been as comfortable with the Communist status quo as with this historic breakthrough for democracy...
...Tela plan's promise, few observers are ready to pronounce the contras dead. Such pronouncements have been issued before. And the rebels made it plain last week that unless the Sandinistas agreed to negotiate with them as equal partners, they had no intention of disarming. If the contras fail to lay down their rifles voluntarily, no one is offering to take the weapons by force...
...plans may be in for some rough weather. Earlier this year, at the Governor's urging, the general assembly enacted new education measures. Among them: a choice plan that will allow students to attend virtually any public school in the state, fines of up to $50 for parents who fail to show up for parent-teacher conferences and a minimum teacher salary of $16,000. But legislators, fearing a voter backlash, refused to pass a 1 cents boost in the sales tax to underwrite the package. Determined to carry through with his program, the Governor has been touring the state...
...Raab acknowledges that his agency has not made a dent in the U.S. drug supply, despite some record-breaking seizures. He contends that interdiction and domestic enforcement are doomed to fail as long as the international market is glutted with cocaine, marijuana and heroin. "We're not using any diplomatic energies of consequence to try to put pressure on the producer and transshipping countries," he complains...
This speculation points to domestic turmoil as the impetus for foreign adventure. But, Ullman and others fail to venture one step further...