Word: fails
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Second Thoughts. Still, last week's events can hardly fail to affect other interrelated diplomatic opportunities. U.S.-Soviet cooperation in the Middle East is almost certain to aid the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Vienna. SALT, in turn, will probably affect negotiations in the Soviet-Chinese-American triangle. The Chinese, who fear Soviet-U.S. collusion at their expense, intend to resume talks with the U.S. soon in Warsaw. Undoubtedly Russia's nervousness about China contributes greatly to the Soviet desire to establish peaceful relations in Europe and to cooperate with the U.S. to avoid another round...
...blood cells-hardest for the body to replace-to the donor. The procedure as now employed can be both profitable and dangerous. Whole blood should not be given more often than every two months. But donors can and do sell plasma far more frequently, and often to laboratories that fail to protect either them or the ultimate user of their life-saving product...
Passengers who fail to reconfirm reservations 72 hours in advance lose their space and often have to stand by for two days or more to get another seat...
Lack of Capital. Another complaint is that some specialists "walk away from the market" and fail to keep stock prices from gyrating sharply. The specialists argue that the current market did not fall in wild, panicky drops, as some bears had expected during the glum days last spring. But there were some sharp breaks in individual stocks. In a special report made after the assassination of President Kennedy, the SEC severely criticized the specialists for failing to support the market during that difficult time...
Amidst the efflorescence of Women's Lib, Joan Didion might easily be confused with the new sisterhood of grievance collectors who blame men for everything. True, she thinks that men fail women. But she also feels that women are careless and callous, and that both sexes spend time and love and integrity as if they were unloading counterfeit money. Obsessed by waste and loss, she is a brooder who sifts her experience over and over again. The last lines of Play It As It Lays appear in a paraphrase throughout her work. They imply questioning-and possibly a survivor...