Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...physical sciences as well. Astronomer Douglas Gough points out that the inner structure, composition, and workings of the sun, let alone distant stars, remain a mystery and that even sunspots, which were recorded by the ancient Chinese, still defy understanding. Theoretical Physicist Abdus Salam concedes that science could fail in the search for a basic particle of matter, that probing deeper into the structure of matter may yield ever-more-basic particles...
...late in the afternoon. He has his one big meal of the day, in the American style, between six and seven o'clock: because of his tender stomach, it is normally a dish of simple, boiled food-this time macaroni imported from Italy and rice. Every evening without fail, Sadat schedules two movies, mostly American westerns; he watches them, usually alone, in his pajamas. He leads an ungaudy life, really, but Sadat's comfortable residences and stylish clothes-as well as his glamorous wife-have drawn disapproving mutters from the public...
Giamatti questions experiments in unmarked or pass-fail courses that leave the best students unsure of where they stand. "Students are owed a sense that the faculty knows what is important," he says, which means "setting reasonable demands and holding to them." He wants a more structured curriculum, with more required and fewer optional courses. Long before he gave any thought to being Yale's president, he was in favor of curtailing many of the new seminars taught by outside "experts," including one on the role of sports in contemporary American society given by Howard Cosell...
...would probably be prepared to join a Geneva Conference later. Lebanese President Elias Sarkis was swamped with his country's own post-civil war problems. In 4½ hrs. of talks in Damascus, Syria's Hafez Assad reiterated his view that Sadat's initiative would fail, that the Arabs were obliged to reject it on almost theological grounds, and that the "great wound" inflicted by Sadat's Jerusalem adventure would take time to heal...
...dispute in which everyone has a point. Japan and Europe are right in arguing that a cut in oil imports, which are currently running at $3.7 billion a month, would immediately reduce the U.S. trade deficit. But they fail to acknowledge that oil imports are increasing largely because the U.S., alone among major industrial nations, is pursuing a broad-based program of economic expansion from which everyone else is benefiting. Japan, for example, has kept its factories humming despite slow domestic economic growth, mostly by selling cars, TVs, steel and other products to the U.S. Consequently Japan is running...