Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fascinated, we devour the newspaper clippings; each gruesome detail imprints itself on our memory. We become transfixed by the terrifyingly personal nature of random death--the element of chance strips us of all defenses. As a result, any film which tries to minimize the enormity of the crime must fail...
...nuclear issue is a national one, because a Seabrook meltdown would threaten residents of Newburyport and Boston as well as Seabrook itself. But it is equally clear that the occupation would fail without firm local support. In my numerous trips to the area in recent months. I have been struck by the degree of support for and clear understanding of the occupation by the local population--particularly those closest to the plant. Northern New England seacoast towns like Seabrook enjoy the peace and quiet of their unspoiled beaches, marshes, and woods. They must now put up with the imminent destruction...
...need all the help we can get. If you do not want to occupy, you can help by doing important support work in Boston or at the legal campsite on the coast near Seabrook. Without this work the occupation will fail. We need drivers, office staffers, medics, people to gather food, supplies and money to keep the occupation going. We need people to join the occupation to replace those who will have to leave. And we need leafletters and canvassers to explain the nature of our action to others, and to join in a mass unobtrusive picket at the plant...
Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not clearly tell you so. For it was Jesus--our Jesus himself--who said: "You are my friends if you do what I command you" (Jn 15:14). Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God. It means discipline and sacrifice, but it also means joy and human fufillment...
...full-page newspaper ads the disaster that would sweep the nation and the auto industry if the U.S.'s tenth largest industrial corporation went bankrupt, the consequences of a Chrysler failure came under closer scrutiny. Some 200,000 U.S. firms declare bankruptcy annually, and the right to fail is as much a part of the capitalist system as the right to succeed. Bankruptcy is the free system's harsh but necessary means of purging companies that, through bad luck or bad management, fail to win enough customers in the marketplace...