Word: botch
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...only bad film Leth makes is remake No. 3, in which the obstruction is no obstruction and Leth has the freedom to do as he wishes. Without the arbitrary guidelines, Leth delivers an unfocused mess. But even that botch has instructive value. It shows why a director's most personal work often fails and why masterpieces are made within the confines of genre: film noir, western, Cuban movie in half-second shots...
...attract new recruits beyond the existing cadre of die-hard Baathists - and, possibly, pockets of Sunni Islamists and disaffected former army officers who have suddenly found themselves with no source of income since the U.S. two weeks ago dissolved the Iraqi army - the U.S. would have to badly botch its efforts to win Iraqi goodwill. But therein lies the rub: Although the U.S. is a long way off from alienating the majority of Iraqis to the extent that they'd consider taking up arms against the world's most powerful military, it has not, thus far, managed to endear...
...urged Wilkins and Franklin to use them. Watson and Crick may have been ambitious for themselves, but they were passionate about knowing the structure of DNA. If they couldn't make the discovery, they would have to acquiesce to Wilkins' and Franklin's doing it. But the Cavendish botch job had cemented Wilkins' and Franklin's view that building models was not the way to solve the structure of DNA. They never used the kits...
...school board adopts the plan, the next superintendent needs to make sure the schools don’t botch the job. The needs of the displaced students must not be neglected by the new, better-performing schools moving in. That means incoming teachers need to continue offering their old students an excellent education, while at the same time working with new struggling students to help them catch up and integrate into a more rigorous academic environment. Ideally, the district should also find a way to keep the Ola program where it is, so it can continue to serve Cambridge?...
...past year, he has been feeling uncharacteristic pangs of regret about the island's wrecked economy and what it will say about his legacy as a 20th century populist icon. As a result, they say, Castro is finally, genuinely behind the anti-embargo push and doesn't want to botch it. "He knows this is the wave to be on now," says a high-ranking Cuban official...