As with most calamities in history, our collective memory fails because the collective memory can bear only so much.
Dr. Lee said that the United Nations agency could not let it fail because "the collective response to the H.I.V./AIDS pandemic is the benchmark by which our generation will be judged".
Although the strike failed, the Wagner Act (National Labour Relations Act) of that year heralded federal support for collective bargaining.
The Russian agro-business sector, which has just been emerging here from the ashes of the failed Soviet collective farm system, was also left pondering its future.
The Paris talks, which are now into their final days, are seen as a make-or-break meeting, because if they fail the world will lack effective collective action on global warming.
A majority of union members, 57 percent, supported the deal, but it failed because collective bargaining rules required that at least 14 of the 15 unions ratify it and that the approving unions represent 80 percent of workers.
If Paris fails, the world will be left without an agreement on collective action to solve this global problem.
Last week, the EU commissioner for human rights, Nils Muižnieks, said the incident bore all the hallmarks of a failed collective expulsion.
However, the collective failed to click "with a girl who'd just discovered guitar-based rock".
But he, along with the other world leaders present, did get a more forceful and detailed blueprint for a global recovery than a similar gathering 86 years ago, when an earlier generation failed to take collective action to counter the Great Depression.
