Word: failing
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...Afghanistan is not going well. But don't take our word for it. "We're not going to win this war," rues Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, Britain's top commander in Afghanistan. The current strategy is "doomed to fail," says the British ambassador Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles. The latest U.S. National Intelligence Estimate notes that the country is in a "downward spiral." Since May, some 180 coalition troops have died in Afghanistan, compared with 120 in Iraq. On Oct. 14, four more NATO soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb...
...what finally forced Paulson's hand? Pressure mounted from abroad when Ireland, the U.K., France and Germany moved almost sequentially to insure deposits and recapitalize banks--nearly $3 trillion worth. For the Treasury to fail to match that offer would have risked a capital flight by institutional depositors that could have started emptying U.S. banks...
...Capital Management Group, which became one of the first hedge-fund companies to go public last November, recently reported that its Asia fund had fallen nearly 17% for the year. Even the fund of David Einhorn, who was one of the first to publicly say that Lehman Brothers could fail, is off nearly 13% this year. Also in the red are the funds of such well-known investors as Julian Robertson and Steven Cohen...
...have yet to find your classroom in Lowell. You go every day, fail to find it, and end up just eating lunch at the dining hall instead...
...only way out: you have choices.” The latter statement links to a manual describing how to legally force the biological father into fulfilling his child support duties, and how to utilize financial assistance programs such as Medicaid and subsidized housing. These proposed solutions fail to seriously address the root economic and social reasons that lead women to seek abortions. Advising an impoverished teenage mothers to procure food stamps merely places a Band-Aid on a gaping wound...