Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Albert Redgate, spokesman for the families, last night said "this is my home, and I absolutely will not move on my own." She said that if her lawyers fail in their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Suffolk County Deputy Marshalls "will have to come after us again...
...what you are trying to do, Mr. Hyland? You must remember that we are in the midst of a class struggle and no side is going to make any concessions, least of all the establishment (or whatever term you radicals call it by) and they are not going to fail to suppress any threats that affect them vitally. Suppose than that your kind of terrorism had certain results which did affect the ruling class. What would happen? They would retaliate and upon the group that is most vulnerable and yet most crucial to the struggle-the people Mr. Hyland...
...satisfaction. But it is certainly not in the interest of America's European allies to see the U.S. humiliated and seriously weakened. There would be troubled questions about whether the U.S. would live up to its contractual defense commitments elsewhere. Many Germans, for example, feel that if the U.S. fails to hold South Viet Nam, as it once promised, it might also fail to come to the rescue of Berlin, as it has also promised. Actually, the fundamental strategic importance of Berlin is much greater, and the U.S. commitment there is a much older one. Nevertheless it was to defend...
...such company, of course, is conducting any such campaign. If it were, the campaign would obviously fail. In the two weeks since Manhattan's B. Altman & Co. first advertised its version of the peekaboo "linear jumpsuit," the store has been selling them so fast that it already has ordered 1,200 more. Other retailers report similarly spectacular sales. Customer comments range from the predictable ("It's divine" "It's the uniform for the '70s") to the profane (the garments fit so tightly that getting into one is a chore). Women who feel that the sheer suit...
Most so-called new products are merely minor variations of existing items. "A truly new product can be a big gamble," says Konigsbacher. "It would probably fail unless the company bringing it out was willing to spend heavily to educate the public." Test-marketing of a single product can cost up to $1,000,000. To cut the bill, many firms are putting heavier emphasis on refining products before the store trial; they increasingly use small panels of consumers who judge products in each stage of development, from conception to completion...