Word: failings
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Wake Up!: Not only did both offenses fail to produce much excitement, but there were very few bone-jarring tackles either. Aside from a few pops by linebackers Gordian and Barry Lausch, the biggest hit of the game may have come in the third quarter, when Columbia's Solomon Johnson was chased out of bounds and bowled over one of the older sideline photographers...
Some critics are concerned that the new $4 million-per-year program will fail to spot drugs that are enhanced naturally by the body's metabolism or immune system, and that the old mouse screens were better in that respect. In any case, new agents discovered by the automated screening may require years of additional testing in the lab -- and then on animals -- before any newly discovered therapies can be tried on human cancer patients. "All it will take," says NCI adviser Korn, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, "is one smashing winner. Then everyone will...
...Henry Kissinger, for one, has said that if sanctions and diplomacy fail, the U.S. should consider a surgical and progressive destruction of Iraq's military assets...
...week the talks will resume in the less than luxurious setting of Andrews Air Force Base, outside Washington. Away from the press and lobbyists, White House and congressional leaders will attempt to fashion an agreement before the Oct. 1 deadline set by the Gramm- Rudman-Hollings Act. If they fail, $100 billion in across-the-board spending cuts -- the so-called sequester -- will go into effect, with $25 billion coming out of military spending and the rest from such activities as prosecuting drug kingpins, closing veterans' hospitals and suspending student loans...
...students, probably through innovative programs or a demonstrated record of academic success. But the real victors would be children of the poor and the hard-pressed urban middle class, who now have no alternative other than attending their crumbling local public school. And if some publicly run schools fail to compete successfully, they would go out of business. A brutal system perhaps, but one guaranteed to shake the torpor out of American education...