Word: failing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush also defended Tower's vow that he would never take another drink if confirmed. "John Tower has said he'll never touch another drop of liquor and he'll have 25,000 people at the Pentagon making sure he keeps his word. I would say we have a fail-safe guarantee," Bush said...
...believe the struggle at the interface of race and sports should be one that is led, developed programmatically and implemented by sports people with intimate knowledge of their institution. If those sports people fail to meet their obligations to move the institution ahead, in terms of broadening democratic participation, then you'll begin to get the civil rights people, protest interests and the lawyers stepping...
...everyone shares the boomers' enthusiasm. According to A.N. Norman, assistant bureau commander of the Los Angeles fire department, several city ambulance drivers have been involved in accidents with boom cars that did not yield the right of way. At a relatively puny 120 decibels, emergency sirens fail to cut through...
...several students said they believed that Clark's controversial appointment will fail to heal the rift between the conservative and leftist faculty members. Clark has been an outspoken critic of Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of thought that characterizes the law as an instrument of social injustice...
...this time I had about two minutes left before the computer was going to cut me off and I was growing more and more frantic. I was so close to passing...and besides, no one was stupid enough to fail the QRR four times...