Word: failing
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...next few weeks, hundreds of millions of salmon fry were scheduled to be released from hatcheries located in protected bays ringing Prince William Sound. So far, salmon fishermen, using their own boats to deploy containment booms, have kept the slick from spreading to the hatcheries. If this tactic should fail, Exxon has promised to move the tiny fish to safe hatcheries elsewhere along the coast. But cancellation of the salmon season is still a possibility...
Environmentalists are not even suggesting that existing wells and pipelines should be shut down. But there is a broad consensus in the state and in Washington that current operations must be made fail-safe and that the oil companies should not be trusted to do this on their own. Immediately after the Exxon Valdez incident, senate President Kelly began to draw up plans for what he calls a Spill Response Corps, to be organized by the state but paid for by the oil companies "as part of the cost of doing business here." And Governor Cowper insisted on a credible...
HUSO should be allowed to succeed or flounder of its own accord. If it lacks student support, it will fail in the free marketplace of ideas...
Those who hold up the seizure of University Hall as a paradigmatic model for campus movements cannot fail to be disappointed by the low-intensity, low-visibility activism that characterizes the University today. With a few notable exceptions, such as last year's sit-in at the office of Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49, campus activism at Harvard usually takes the form of unglamorous, nuts-and-bolts work, be it in the union office or homeless shelter. But who can say that these types of activism are any less valid or socially productive than shutting down the University...
Hospitals generally dispose of their medical waste through incineration, either on the site, with another hospital or through a paid contractor. But legislators have said that some small hospitals fail to burn their waste properly, creating an environmental hazard when the medical refuse is dumped along with normal garbage...