Word: failed
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...cites the pass-fail grading of all classes as a benefit of the system, but says that students still prepare because the small tutorials make evasion difficult. The reliance on essays rather than multiple choice testing is also a positive asset, he says...
...will not fail," Bush said...
...given the demands on the limited federal research budget, such efforts will probably fail. Perhaps as unfortunate, notes Dr. Geoffrey Howe, a leading researcher on cancer and diet at the University of Toronto, is the fact that "political pressure is the criterion for deciding what scientific research needs to be done...
...than 1,000 of the nation's 12,400 commercial banks are on the government's watch list of troubled lenders, a level four times as great as during the 1981-82 recession. And the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. expects 180 banks with total assets of $70 billion to fail this year. The cost of closing them will drain more than half the cash now in the FDIC fund that insures bank deposits, leaving a meager $4 billion on hand, unless something is done to shore up the fund...
ADMITTEDLY, Baker's "talking" may not lead to peace. Iraq might not buy Baker's statements about his support for Palestinian sovereignty. And no matter how hard the United States tries to establish a settlement, negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians still might fail...