Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closed their doors; several others are reported to be in trouble because of insufficient capital. A number of them may be forced into shotgun mergers. The New York Stock Exchange last week began steps to increase the trust fund that it maintains to pay off customers of houses that fail. It intends to build up the fund from $17.3 million now to $55 million. One important balancing factor: though this has been the worst bear market since the Depression, it is not nearly so severe...
...repeat that sequence by quickly punching five numbered buttons in the proper order; in your stupor, you are too slow−or you get one number wrong. Try again. A different sequence of numbers flashes on. Another miss. Better pull yourself together and concentrate. But you fail for the third time and you know that now the car won't start at all for another half-hour; it has sensed that you are not sober enough to drive safely...
...most campuses that have remained open, students may receive grades based on work completed before they went on strike, or they may attend class as usual and take a final exam. Alternatively, they may choose a simple "pass" or "fail," or an incomplete and finish up in the fall. Where finals have not been canceled, there is a widespread choice on when to take exams-this spring, during the summer at home or in September back on campus...
...other Americans (TIME, April 20). As official and unofficial attempts to locate them continued last week, one response came from Cambodia's deposed Prince Sihanouk. Cabled in Peking by the Christian Science Monitor, Sihanouk replied: "If news of these journalists reaches us at any time, I shall not fail to inform...
...trouble? Existing planning procedures, says Watt, "fail utterly to consider all the relevant consequences of decisions made or not made in both the public and private sectors; they fail to consider all the alternatives and fail to figure in all the costs and benefits when alternatives are considered." Large, improved computers can easily handle the complexities...