Word: fails
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Since 1941, when Jones first ran for the Cambridge School Committee, he has been a constant in city politics. He ran for City Council every other year for the last several decades without fail, although he has now officially retired his long-standing candidacy...
...Kyoto talks managed to haggle the Europeans down from requiring a 15 percent reduction from 1990 emission levels to 5 percent. Then, when it came to negotiating how to implement the treaty, one of Washington's pet mechanisms was the trading of pollution rights (countries who fail to meet their own targets could pay other countries to reduce theirs below the required rate, thereby bringing the overall global output down to the necessary levels...
...countries are committed to NATO, and are going to use NATO planners to do their logistical planning. A lot of their capability right now is NATO capability. They're unlikely to do anything NATO wouldn't like. It's being presented as a means of addressing military crises that fail to meet the test of U.S. national interests. One example is the anarchy in Albania that followed the collapse of a pyramid scheme in 1997. The Italian army eventually moved in to stabilize the situation. That was an example E.U. members used to illustrate the function of a European military...
...Europe, of course, is way ahead of the U.S. in terms of cutting its reliance on fossil fuels, but even then it remains doubtful whether many EU countries will achieve their own targets. So even if the Europeans fail to secure U.S. agreement on cuts, it?s unlikely to muster the will or the means to impose any penalties. In other words, saving the planet may just have to wait...
...overwhelming construction of colored twist ties, shaped into interconnected loops, encompasses a gallery wall. The thousands of intricate twist ties, though at first glance an entirely bizarre creation, do not fail at least to inspire tremendous appreciation for Welty's fastidiousness. Taken a little differently, however, the construction resembles nothing so much as a giant piece of Swiss cheese...