Word: fails
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...collecting a room-full of awards, including last year's individual heptagonal cross-country championship, All-American honors in the two-mile relay in 1979, a Millrose Games record in the same event, and the captainship of all three track seasons this year. His unique bow-legged stride, never-fail kick, and sense of humor have become legend...
...perform. To limit the hopes for high academic success is to destroy the capability to attain that success. People tend to live up to the expectations imposed on them, if they are told their capabilities are low, then they will often cease to strive for higher goals and thus fail to realize their full potential. These statements are not only dangerous but irresponsible as well, for they stifle intellectual curiosity and destroy self-esteem...
...murder of his wife and children must "feel like a man." But he can't in public, so he just stands there, horrified, perplexed by this mad order which forces one to substitute country for family and torn by the guilt of leaving home. For once, words fail him, and the effect is illuminating...
...which consists of two student representatives from each upperclass House, drafted a letter to the Standing Committee on the Core requesting the pass-fail option "in order to encourage students to take courses that are perceived as especially difficult or that are in fields where students have no experience...
...this to be only a temporary reprieve. Says M.P. Peter Tapsell, a respected Tory backbencher: "We will make a bad mistake if we assume that Labor's shambles at Blackpool guarantee us victory at the next general election [in 1984]. Electorates turn out governments, not oppositions. If we fail to get the economy right, the voters aren't likely to care all that much whether they replace us with a government led by Denis Healey or Tony Benn." Healey represents Labor's moderates, Benn its far left...