Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They need to understand you, Need to. If they fail to understand how you live they'll "kill" your ass, and call you a "dead man." Which incidentally is the way they classify everything they "kill...
...AMERICA failed the chances Cowan gave it. The liberal credo on which he was nurtured (described with almost poetic beauty in a passage about his childhood fantasies of stalwartly crushing Joe McCarthyism) went so deep that it inhibited his anger for years. He treats his involvement with the Civil Rights movement and the Peace Corps in Ecuador so thoroughly, tracing his individual frustration back to the power source that fundamentally opposes meaningful change, as to argue convincingly that the chance-giving approach must fail. The implications for those younger than Cowan bring to mind George Santayana's maxim that people...
...What General Motors did not say is that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare tests demonstrate that once the 1970 cars have been on the road a while, as many as four-fifths of them fail to meet the standards which GM claims to have...
...Next fail as CLAO enters its fifthyear and switches from a research to an operational grant it will achieve an increased permanence in the Cambridge community. At this time the staff will have to resolve some of the major problems now facing CLAO...
...more trouble than the white in getting loans, insurance or contracts from large firms, and he is particularly handicapped by a lack of familiarity with modern business techniques. Unlike the white man, he can rarely draw on the experience of relatives and friends. Two-thirds of all small businesses fail in their first five years: the failure rate for black businesses is higher, though impossible to pin down...