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Word: fails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...safety advocates think the focus on Decatur is a red herring that would isolate the problem and limit the companies' potential liability. If it was a manufacturing problem, safety advocates ask, why didn't any of the other 50 or so lines of tires made at the plant fail? They may have a point. A former employee at the company's plant in Wilson, N.C., also described by Firestone as disgruntled, has testified to similar quality-control issues at that facility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of a Recall | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

More worrisome to educators are the many students who fail the current exam. Despite a B average, it took Amber Montgomery 13 tries--and four extra years of tutoring--before she finally passed the math portion of the achievement test and graduated at age 22 from Burleson High School, near Fort Worth. Says Montgomery: "I was determined to get my diploma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Does Texas Make The Grade? | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...knew I'd fail in my promise to be a full-fledged, art-producing participant at this year's Burning Man festival--the temporary Mad Max-inspired city made up of 30,000 neo-hippies camped out on a lifeless, mud-caked playa in Nevada the week before Labor Day for no better reason than they forgot to get a beach share. And as I feared, I showed up at the desert last week hopelessly unprepared, without so much as an alien costume or a didgeridoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Armpit Of Nevada | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...safety advocates think the focus on Decatur is a red herring that would isolate the problem and limit the companies' potential liability. If it was a manufacturing problem, safety advocates ask, why didn't any of the other 50 or so lines of tires made at the plant fail? They may have a point. A former employee at the company's plant in Wilson, N.C., also described by Firestone as disgruntled, has testified to similar quality-control issues at that facility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of a Recall | 9/3/2000 | See Source »

...More worrisome to educators are the many students who fail the current exam. Despite a B average, it took Amber Montgomery 13 tries - and four extra years of tutoring - before she finally passed the math portion of the achievement test and graduated from Burleson High School, near Fort Worth, at age 22. Says Montgomery: "I was determined to get my diploma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Texas Make the Grade? | 9/3/2000 | See Source »

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