Word: failed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American agreed to revise its standards. Under the settlement, the company's 1959 weight requirements will be relaxed, and employees will be able to weigh more as they age. Violators will be required to lose just 2 lbs. a month rather than 1 1/2 lbs. a week. If they fail, they will be given jobs within the company rather than fired...
When John Cheever died in 1982, he left a legacy of 12 books. Eleven cannot fail to enhance his reputation; one is likely to erode it. The Journals of John Cheever is not scheduled to be published by Knopf until November, but four long excerpts have already appeared in the New Yorker. They have occasioned more chatter and speculation than anything the author published in his lifetime, because they reveal a private face entirely unlike the mask that Cheever contrived for public view...
Usually, the added cost of a new drug is justified by an obvious benefit. Second- and third-generation antibiotics, for instance, can work when older, cheaper antibiotics like penicillin fail. In other cases, a costly new drug may break new ground, as AZT did in treating AIDS...
...long. Following an emergency Cabinet session in Rome, Deputy Prime Minister Claudio Martelli declared that "this exodus cannot continue." The vast majority of Albania's visitors are "not political refugees but economic refugees," he said, and as such they fail to qualify for asylum under Italian law and will be returned home within a few days by Italian ships. That decision, doubtless influenced by Italy's 11% unemployment rate, was the most dramatic display to date of Western Europe's growing reluctance to receive waves of immigrants from the East...
...underlying reference in the above editorial, in case you didn't get it, is to the late Robert Mapplethorpe. Just because he took six photographs of the piss-in-your-neighbor's-mouth variety, the argument goes, people shouldn't fail to recognize the remarkable quality and skill he demonstrated in his other work. Neither should the myriad of high-quality, unoffensive artistic specimens he provided be banned...