"The policy we have had in place for 50 years has not worked the way we wanted it to,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

Oh, I have worked on a couple of projects where the other person has not done much work.

哦，我参加过几个项目中而组员不怎么干活。

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She says the nearly 50-year embargo of the island has not worked.

VOA: standard.2009.04.07

It's not the first time CSPI has threatened legal action against junk food makers -- and the strategy has worked before.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

"To have us back away from those in order to get some kind of engagement seems to me, makes no sense because appeasement has never worked before and it seems to me to fly into that danger zone of appeasement, which is not wise policy,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.28