Word: failing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eric Clapton's Journeyman is a disappointing collection of apparently left over tracks from the August recording sessions, thrown together with some new, mainly pop-oriented material. A few pleasant tracks contributed by blues musician Robert Cray and three wonderful new covers of some 40-year-old blues tunes fail to carry Clapton's latest album to a level significantly above that of any of his other projects of the past 10 years...
...student health insurance program is ultimately doomed to fail because, just like the Catastrophic Health Care Act, it is at best an attempt to apply a Band-aid remedy to a national health care crisis...
Unfortunately, there are no such candidates. The anti-rent control candidates fail to distinguish themselves on other issues. Although we believe that the candidates endorsed by the staff are misguided in their uncritical advocacy of rent control, they are, on balance, the better candidates...
...problem, of course, is that there is no fail-safe recipe for democracy. While Hungary and Poland have successfully evicted the old chefs from the kitchen, they are having a hard time settling on who will help concoct a different mix. After years of popular revolt, the Poles have installed a Solidarity-led government, but that new leadership is brushing up against its own lack of experience. Within the Sejm, Solidarity is having problems enforcing party discipline. Out in the provinces, the government is having an even tougher time persuading Communist officials to relinquish their privileges, let alone their posts...
...called "negative choice" solution, in which students list the three houses in which they don't want to live, will fail as long as the students who are intended to round out the stereotyped houses don't want to live in them. There's also the problem of three houses down Garden St. that so many first-years want to avoid...