Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Deutsch's furrowed brow now relaxes as he offers a note of optimism: "Humanity has always survived its crises, from the ice age onward. I don't think we'll fail...
...whiff of periplanone B from a female acts as an aphrodisiac for male American roaches, prompting them to mate. If the males are overwhelmed by a massive man-made dose, however, they may become too confused to find mates, and thus will fail to procreate...
...unable to sign the faculty letter on South Africa because it asks too little too late. This is no longer the time to "support or initiate shareholder resolutions" for corporate withdrawal with the stipulation that, if these fail, one will "seek additional support for a period of a year or two [our italics] among other stockholders," and only then, when this does not bring about corporate withdrawal, to "adopt a policy of strategic divestiture." The struggle has been going on too long, and other universities have begun to divest. This is not the time to start a slow walk...
People accept and admire the technical expertise of oilmen; it is the business side of the industry that they suspect. They fail to understand why prices keep going up, especially when the announcement of an OPEC production cutback or an increase in the cost of oil that is a month or more away by sea from the U.S. seems almost immediately to send the price of gasoline leaping at the pump...
...corporations that there are potential consequences to follow upon their failure to respond to earlier demands or positions taken by the University, if, in other words, at the end of our chain of articulated steps, there exists no exit, only a kind of crying in the wind, then we fail in the end, either to communicate our moral stance or to exercise what little power in the most efficacious way that we have in this situation...