Word: failed
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...Americans and as members of an academic community, we have the privilege of a long tradition of free speech and individual liberty. The abridgement of these rights by those booksellers who fail to uphold the very principles from which they profit is troubling. We applaud those stores with the courage to stand by the American people's right to read what they want to read and to judge for themselves what they believe...
...shock. I was determined not to fail the QRR for the fourth time, not when I was so close to victory...
These gains in rote learning are offset by a worrisome inability to reason effectively. More than 60% of all high school students cannot understand the material they read, including newspaper stories or topics they study in class. Fully a fourth of all 13-year-olds fail to grasp the principles of basic math. That problem is apparently not remedied in high school, where almost half of all students are unable to solve problems using decimals, percentages, basic geometry or algebra...
...volcano Kilauea. This jaunt is not for the faint of heart or weak of knee. When the tree line below suddenly drops away, leaving the swaying copter to swoop deep into an amphitheater of waterfalls, even the rush of peaceable New Age music injected through the passenger headphones may fail to tranquilize a white-knuckle flyer...
Many students who would contribute "diversity" to a class--those from inner-city public high schools, poorer economic backrounds and foreign countries, and athletes--fail to apply early because counsellors cannot give them enough attention...