Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fail to do this, it may help to escalate the present confrontation," he said...
Dienstbier attacked skeptics of European integration efforts, and said they were "incapable of viewing poitics as an expression of human freedom." But he said integration attempts would fail unless the Soviet Union could peacefully restructure its political and economic systems, and unless an "all-Europe" political system could be created without NATO...
SIEGFRIED AND ROY AT THE MIRAGE IN LAS VEGAS. If the flame-spewing volcano, the fish-filled tanks and the Polynesian-style gaming tables fail to bedazzle you, take in the hottest show on the Strip. Illusion prevails as a five-ton elephant disappears, Royal White tigers strut their stuff and glitzy dancing girls in armor play with a fire-breathing dragon...
...cuts that Defense Secretary Dick Cheney unveiled last week are the most significant so far, but they fail the Nunn test. Rather than rethinking weapons programs, Cheney simply trimmed some back and stretched them out. The proposals...
Landsbergis said he would "carefully study" the letter, but he could hardly fail to read it as support for President Mikhail Gorbachev's demands that the Baltic republic consent to an orderly secession by Moscow's rules. Landsbergis had already been stung by George Bush's decision not to impose economic sanctions on the Soviet Union -- a decision the Lithuanian leader likened to the appeasement of Hitler at the 1938 Munich conference. The comparison was farfetched, since Bush was counseling Lithuania to take a less confrontational course toward independence, not to surrender to a predatory totalitarian...