Word: failing
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Should the University fail to address SPIL's role in the city, SPOA will pursue a policy of "opposing Harvard in everything they try to do before the City Council," Natale said...
...then maybe we should just . . . give people their money back and let them educate themselves or start their own schools. That would be one radical way to have accountability." Irritated White House officials scrambled to dissociate themselves from Bennett's impolitic outburst. But if the President and the Governors fail to show concrete results in this latest round of school reform, perhaps parents will be ready to take Bennett up on his offer...
Civil rights groups have also been planning a political assault. The upshot of last term's rulings, says University of Miami law professor Mary Coombs, was that everyone "exists as a separate, individual, raceless, genderless person who is allowed to succeed or fail in terms designed for middle-class white men." Several U.S. Senators are drafting legislation to try to overturn some of those discrimination rulings...
RESTORING AN IRA DEDUCTION. We spend more than we produce and fail to save nearly enough to remain competitive. Restoring the Individual Retirement Account incentive, as House Democrats proposed, would nudge the average family to spend a little less and save a little more -- just what the doctor ordered. More saving and less borrowing would also tend to lower interest rates, which would benefit rich and poor alike...
...form, the legislation, an amendment to the anti-drug bill, would withhold federal funding from colleges that fail to prohibit on-campus advertising promoting underage drinking, or that do not discourage campus publications from displaying such advertising...