Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chronologically 80 are biologically only 60. Their bones, eyes, ears, skin-even reflexes and blood pressure -may be those one expects in a 60-year-old." Complicating matters is the fact that physiological aging varies not only from person to person but within the individual as well. Eyesight may fail while hearing remains acute. Says Psychiatrist Robert N. Butler, director of the National Institute on Aging: "One may be at different 'ages' at one and the same time in terms of mental capacity, physical health, endurance, creativity and emotions...
Some experts believe that if the Communists fail to get their revised version of the common program as well as the right to veto any Socialist policy in a leftist government, they will sabotage the election effort. Mitterrand's dilemma last week was acute. If the quarrel is not resolved, the defection of only 2% or 3% of the Socialist vote could prevent the left from getting the 54% it needs to win a majority in the National Assembly. On the other hand, if Mitterrand yields to Communist demands for widespread nationalization, the Socialists could lose the support...
...every two years.") Powers's point is simple: "If a guy's going to carry a gun, he's got to be able to carry it, he's got to be able to see clearly and react quickly." Letteri, on the other hand, wants a guarantee that officers who fail the exams will be allowed to remain in the force on light duty. Otherwise the department could use the physicals as an excuse to weed out the uncooperative officers: "You're bound to fail one sooner or later," he says. But such a guarantee, which would have been simple...
Under the current transfer system, if Housing Office guidelines fail to distinguish between transfer applicants, masters may choose among applicants on whatever basis they desire...
...Philosphers' point is precisely that the men who have, and have had, leadership fail to examine the frailty of their own humanity and only succeed in crushing the lives of those who must follow...