Word: fails
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...indignation helps you look tough back home in the district. Leaks from the delegations suggest Arafat has twice gestured toward the door, ordering his aides to pack their bags on Saturday night and trying to phone U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan early Tuesday to tell him the talks had failed. Now, Israel radio reports Barak is planning to go home Wednesday evening with no deal. But while the others are threatening to leave, President Clinton has delayed his scheduled Wednesday departure for Tokyo by 24 hours - after all, he may have more to lose than either man if the talks...
...down. That's because it will carry a global-positioning-system transmitter, the same satellite technology that keeps motorists from getting lost. Although Pentagon documents say GPS data will help guide the interceptor during test flights, program officials say the data will be used only if other methods fail. Any use of GPS data, says Coyle, "does not suitably stress the system in a realistic enough manner to support acquisition decisions...
...public defender, I see criminal defendants all too often choosing to represent themselves against the immense power of the government with their own meager devices [LAW, June 12]. They make ham-fisted tactical decisions and inevitably fail to pursue viable defenses. For all their criticisms of lawyers, after inevitable guilty verdicts, these unfortunates are forced to conclude there is no substitute for an attorney by their side, to speak for those who were unable to speak for themselves. IRENE PAI, DEPUTY PUBLIC DEFENDER Orange County Public Defender's Office Orange, Calif...
...will be waiting on line to see this movie, I assure you. But if, for some reason, even Clooney's indisputable charms fail to rouse the attentions of the American moviegoing public, here's a suggestion for next summer: Think "reality" features. Keep a small video camera running in the conference rooms at Fox, Warner Brothers, Paramount and Miramax as the summer wears on. If profits improve, that's great. If not, you've got a whole series of "reality" movies to show next year, complete with images of frantic executives hurling themselves out the first-floor windows of movie...
Constant technological revolution makes planning difficult, and a society that stops planning for the future is likely to become a brittle society. It could experience violent economic swings. It could trip into wars fought with vicious new weapons. Its pervasive new technologies could fail in massive or horrible ways. Or persistent, nagging small failures could sap the whole enterprise...