Word: fails
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...students don't know how to take a law school exam, [a pass-fail system] can take a lot of pressure off," Cooper says. But, he says, an entire year of pass/fail grades could put students at a disadvantage when they begin interviewing for jobs in the fall of their second year...
Should the mailings fail to elicit a response, the census office will dispatch a fleet of enumerators--men and women who will visit households in their neighborhood that have not yet responded--to offer assistance...
...want to offend Luke and Laura, who seem to have had some very unfortunate troubles, but these contrived marriages seem doomed to fail. Maybe getting hitched after a first date is romantic, but to me, it means more when a commitment evolves without depending on the powers vested by a church, state or a TV network that pushed that Action show way too hard...
...what those who draw a line between literature and theater parallel to the line between work and play fail to see is that the play of drama is fundamentally a type of work. Tragedy, for instance, is exclusively a dramatic art form, or so most performance scholars will argue. An audience is forced to watch the tragedy through to the end whereas a reader can put down a book when it becomes too painful to bear. An audience, in other words, is forced to do the work of coming to terms with what they are seeing; a reader can choose...
...cultural globalism; and reconceived by technology..." Hip and cerebral as these meditations may be, they are largely lost on the art viewer-cum-game player absorbed simply in scoring maximum pointage. Still, though the piece is less avant-garde than its high-brow title might suggest, it will not fail to amuse campy individuals who prefer to take their art less seriously sometimes...