Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of their studies, Avalanchologist Andre Roche and other institute scientists now classify avalanches in two basic groups. One is the dreaded Staublawine (German for dust avalanche), which may occur, for example, when heavy new snowfalls fail to cling to the older foundation and begin to slide in billowing masses down the slope. It can be set off by a sudden shift of wind. Literally riding on a cushion of air at speeds of up to 150 m.p.h., dust avalanches create such enormous pressure differentials that they have been known to pull people out of their homes or knock down...
...live, that your work will of course be interrupted by children, etc., means that women often have great difficulty applying themselves to a long term task or occupation, and tend to restlessly take up occupations and leave them. developing what some psychologists have recently dubbed "the will to fail...
...antiriot law to maximum jail terms of five years and imposed on each a $5,000 fine, half the allowable maximum. The jail terms are to run concurrently with the contempt sentences, so that none will have to serve more than five years in all-even if appeals fail and no paroles are granted. But Hoffman added an unusual zinger. The five will have to pay portions of the costs of their own prosecution.* The total costs could run as high as $50,000. They will stay in jail, said the judge, until both the fines and the costs...
Should the jury-even after Hoffman sends them back to deliberate under the Allen charge-fail to reach a verdict. the government will probably drop thecase rather than begin another trial...
...Grading is problematic. A school-wide committee recommended pass-fail grading for UFS because of the nature of the course work. In the case of at least one project, the Planning Department faculty threatened to change some "pass" grades to B-, the lowest passing grade a graduate student can receive...