Word: failing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THOSE who believe that the stereotyped houses are not diverse fail to see how multifaceted each of us is. We come from different parts of the country, have different political views, participate in different activities, are of different races and concentrate in different subjects. Having one common interest with some of your friends does not make you all the same, it just means that you have some common ground on which you base your friendship...
...There have been two great political events over the last 15 years," said Sutherland, former Commissioner of the European Community said. "One of them is '1992'...The other is recent happenings in Eastern Europe...Neither of them can fail without damaging the other, and U.S. support for both is crucial...
...federal welfare bureaucracy is inefficient. Liberals do fail to deal rationally with issues of national security and violent crime. A lot of government paperwork is unnecessary and counterproductive. Congress does waste a lot of money...
...price when the deals go through. The high anxiety about the junk-bond market sent the stocks of takeover targets plunging across the board. "The arbs got their heads handed to them," said Anson Beard, the chief trader for Morgan Stanley. "Very few anticipated that the UAL buyout could fail." Small investors suffered less because they have been less active in the market since the 1987 crash...
Whether or not that ever happens, music has already left a deep mark on Woody's artistic achievement. No one who has seen his films can fail to appreciate how effectively he uses the scores to reinforce the visuals -- from the Gershwin themes of Manhattan to the Django Reinhardt and Louis Armstrong ballads of Stardust Memories to the brooding Schubert string quartet of Crimes and Misdemeanors, which premiered last week. For the sound track of Sleeper, Woody even went to New Orleans in 1973 and recorded himself playing with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. (The old musicians there had never...