Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already has moved twice in the past two weeks to tighten up; last week, in response, Chase Manhattan Bank raised its prime rate on business loans a quarter point, to 8¼%. Democratic Economist Otto Eckstein says that a $25 billion tax cut would be "guaranteed to fail" if it leads to a tighter money policy. He favors both delaying the cut until Jan. 1 and shrinking it to $20 billion...
Canards have so persisted that many untraveled Americans might be surprised to learn that millions of Southerners hate grits and could not quote the King James if threatened with hellfire. Scholars often fail to see that actual Mississippi is related to Yoknapatawpha County only as the tones of the musical scales are related to the symphonies of Beethoven. Even the grating H.L. Mencken did not manage to cut through the spoon bread. After a smart assessment of the Sahara of the beauxarts, Mencken paused to mourn the passing of a more "cultured" South that existed only in legend...
...nice touches fail to illuminate the complex, confused philosophy of the young Albert Camus, and Vicente Castro in his last play at Harvard merely trips through it. There are interesting moments in this production, but riding Camus roughshod is, in the great Caligula tradition, artistic suicide...
...important issues, from racism in America, to the future of capitalism. But these related issues are clearly not what united the marchers on Thursday night, or the U-Hall protesters Friday. Many of these participants still refuse to address the broad economic question South Africa raises; others, even now, fail to recognize the connection between American corporate racism abroad and racism in America...
...Gelsey had she stayed? But Baryshnikov's offer was a plum that few ballerinas could have resisted. Keeping up with him was hard enough. And the glare of publicity that followed his grand jeté to the West offered his partner the brightest, whitest arena in which to succeed or fail...