Word: failed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world, has become to computer failures -- natural and man-made. In 20 years of intensive automation, everything from supermarkets to stock exchanges has been computerized. Last week businesses and consumers were forced to face up to a downside of technology that becomes apparent only when the new systems fail. Said Steven Idelman, chairman of Omaha-based Idelman Telemarketing: "When things go wrong in a computer environment, they go wrong...
...neither trendy nor fashionable, but a basic American belief that spans generations. The N.R.A.'s strength has never originated in Washington but instead has reached outward and upward from Biloxi, Albuquerque, Concord, Tampa, Topeka -- from every point on the compass and from communities large and small. Those who fail to grasp this widespread commitment will never understand the depth of political and philosophical dedication symbolized by the letters N.R.A...
...A.H.A. has not yet made public the amount of fat, cholesterol and salt it considers acceptable. "We don't know whether the standards are too lax," says nutritionist Bonnie Liebman of the Center for - Science in the Public Interest. Another objection: the A.H.A. will not disclose which products fail in testing...
...academic forces lost a few yards on another rule entangled in racial tensions. Last year the NCAA passed Proposition 42, which would have denied any scholarships to athletes who fail to meet basic requirements, essentially: 1) a C average in eleven high school core subjects and 2) a score of 700 (on a scale of 400 to 1,600) on the SAT or 15 (on a scale of 1 to 36) on the ACT. Since disproportionate numbers of blacks fall short on these tests, Proposition 42 was widely denounced as racist. Yet instead of repealing it, as many blacks demanded...
...despite a noble effort and some excellent individual performances, Carleton and much of the cast fail to provide the production with the energy and originality it needs...