Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...differing reasons, by Viet Nam and the U.S., but the conference did ratify a new policy of refusing to grant automatic refugee status to fresh arrivals. In Hong Kong alone, as a consequence, some 33,000 boat people will be invited to return to Viet Nam; if they fail to go voluntarily, they will almost certainly be forced to head home...
...bailout plan may reassure S & L depositors, the tough capital requirements will spell trouble for many marginal thrifts. James Barth, chief economist of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates S & Ls, estimates that 674 thrifts, or almost one-fourth of all federally insured U.S. savings institutions, would fail to meet the new capital standards. As a result, many thrifts would be forced to liquidate or combine with healthier institutions...
...trust and develop attachments to people within the first two years of life. By then they have also acquired a sense of compassion and empathy for others. And they have begun to be taught the difference between right and wrong and that hurtful actions have consequences. Many youngsters, though, fail to acquire those early curbs on conduct. Later on, when children misbehave, indulgent parents make excuses and forgo punishments. Young boys who grow up with absent or uninvolved fathers suffer doubly in that they often fail to develop a healthy sense of masculinity...
...School is not alone in having few ethics specialists among its faculty. Accomplished ethics professors are a select group, say scholars in the field, and even the B-School's greatest efforts would fail to secure as many professors as teach in programs such as finance or marketing...
...faith in his own impartial thoroughness, many say, makes him lose patience with those who he feels have not put in the same effort, or those who he thinks fail to present a rational and dispassionate case...