Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...department "simply wants to give students as many chances as possible to pass the exam," David H. Donald, chairman of the board of examiners and Warren Professor of American History, said yesterday. Concentrators who fail the exam as juniors will be able to take it again the next year...
Congress should have thought more carefully about the all-volunteer force before it decided to eliminate so many benefits to cut the budget. The all-volunteer force has only started to fail since the benefits have been "dropping like flies." There is not much left to entice young people to enlist...
...administrators fail to heed CHUL, once again paternalism will win over democracy, and complacency will win over moral action...
These are only examples of possibilities. All may succeed; all may fail. There is no one "solution" to the energy problem. Zealots of every stripe have done the nation a disservice by touting their pet ideas (conservation, nuclear power, solar power, co-generation or whatever) as the solution and denigrating every other idea. Their competing overenthusiasms have confused an already difficult debate. The task is to devise a truly comprehensive energy program, investigating every feasible idea and pouring time and money into those that seem most promising...
...this could presage the mild recession that is widely expected later this year. If the guidelines fail before the decline in production begins, the only practical, short-term alternative would be an ever tougher monetary policy and higher interest rates. Money supply is already relatively tight, and interest rates are expected to go on rising into June. A continuation of this trend could lead to a recession deeper and more painful than anyone wants...