Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hold of yourself,' I thought. Surely the strain of rushing frantically through a city where I consistently fail to understand the announcements made over loudspeakers and the questions of taxi drivers had driven me to a state of schizoPresley psychosis...
Opponents of the proposal, while they may be able to point to cases where deregulation failed, cannot present any analysis as to why it would fail in this particular case. We hope that reason will prevail over the irrational Cantabrigian suspicion of the free market...
...only did Harvard fail to cash in with the man advantage, but also there were times when Vermont mounted scoring opportunities on its own, such as a two-on-one rush which would have tallied another, had the puck not deflected off Coughlin's skate...
...jeeps burst through the fence of the Brink's-Allied depot in northern Dublin. The five masked occupants, encountering no resistance, bagged $4.2 million and sped away. Following Justice Ministry assurances that all precautions had been taken to prevent such a raid, embarrassing revelations emerged. Not only did police fail to beef up surveillance after a warning that a security-company robbery was being planned, but when the theft took place, most of the Brink's-Allied security staff were caught off guard in the canteen. The fiasco nearly turned tragic a week later, when journalist Veronica Guerin...
...Osaka were not well prepared, and many were crushed to death inside their old wooden homes. Despite the misery, the people of Kobe say ``Shoganai'' (It can't be helped). However, we Japanese cannot say ``Shoganai'' to the slow response and disorganization of the government. Why did the authorities fail to cordon off main roads for official use? Why did it take four hours before troops were sent for the rescue operation? Many people could have been removed from the rubble if the authorities had responded quickly. In the future, similar quakes will hit other parts of the country...