Word: flunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battery-powered engine, for example). What he really wants is a decent replacement for his air-conditioned, 8-m.p.g. '71 Chevy Impala. He was pretty disappointed when the so-called Moodymobile raised hopes and made headlines by getting from Florida to Washington, D.C., at 84 m.p.g. only to flunk its EPA emissions test...
...department told six juniors with "poor or erratic" records about the tests, but none of them opted to take it, Denault said. "Some of these students felt they needed more preparation and didn't want to flunk, even though they could take it again as seniors," he added...
...forward last year in response to his own declaration of a "moral equivalent of war" actually called for the continued regulation of gas prices, whereas the final version is a complex formula for gradual deregulation by 1985. Even its supporters gave it a grade of C minus; opponents flunk it outright...
...graduates go on to college. All students must take college boards, apply to at least three colleges, fill out financial-aid forms and write papers on their career goals?besides learning Adams' law: "If you don't internalize discipline in high school, you're going to flunk out of college in the first two weeks...
...irony, says Weidenbaum, is that Government freely violates its own regulations. "Federal installations are among the worst environmental offenders. OSHA offices fail to meet OSHA safety standards. And think of Social Security and the Civil Service Retirement Fund being subjected to the standards of ERISA. They would flunk...