Word: failed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Again and again, until the Harvard fans did not know when to sit down, the Crimson would make an energetic run, find the open man with crisp passes an then fail to get the best shot...
...forced American Jews to abandon the central values of reason and compassion" constitute a moral critique of whole diverse groups of people that is so general in nature that it could not be possibly true. This statement is so blatantly presumptuous that it is no wonder why the authors fail to give even one example of this moral failure or to describe exactly how they feel it has come about...
EACH year I see scores of Harvard students put a great deal of time and energy into applying for fellowships. And each year, invariably, I see every last one of them fail...
...looked as if the prosecutors had everything in their favor: a law-and-order judge, a seemingly conservative jury and seven pieces of evidence that could not fail to shock and disgust. The defendants had only one thing on their side: the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But the verdict last week cleared Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center and its director, Dennis Barrie, of obscenity charges stemming from their exhibition of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe...
...making a bad loan. It was not until a generational shift occurred in the '70s that bankers prepared to entertain really rank loans. The government had this free ride for a long time. There were hardly any failures because bankers were not lending in such a way as to fail. And now, paradoxically, when the talk is of cutting back on deposit insurance, the banking system is a mirror image of the system...