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REBAQ (Re-Elect Bush and Quayle). Main drawback: sounds like an aerobics shoe...
Producers for the public television program NOVA are tracking the lives of Grazette and six of her classmates as they pass through Harvard's revolutionary program in order to see how it prepares them for a career in medicine. The drawback, Grazette says, is that she knows every mistake of her training will be forever recorded...
...drawback of germ warfare is its unpredictability. Saddam might be reluctant to use it on the battlefield because his own soldiers could become infected. He would be more likely to launch germ attacks against specific targets, such as airfields, command centers and ships, or against civilian populations in an attempt to cripple oil production. Even then, the Iraqi leader would need to choose his weapon carefully. Some hardy microbes, such as anthrax and plague, can infect an area for years, which would make it dangerous for Iraq's troops to move into a territory that had been captured with...
...only good part about the newly dubbed SAT-1 and SAT-2 is that we now know why we had to take all of those experimental sections of the old Scholastic Aptitude Test. But the drawback of the new tests is that they change the elements we identify with the most. They renamed the tests SAT-1 and SAT-2, they abolished achievement tests and they are even phasing out multiple choice...
...more serious drawback is Dinkins' reluctance to attack problems in a direct and forceful way. Since January, for example, the Flatbush section of Brooklyn has been roiled by a black boycott of two Korean grocery stores that began after a Haitian woman accused the Koreans of assaulting her in an argument over a dollar's worth of fruit. The shopowners obtained a civil court injunction ordering the protesters to remain at least 50 ft. away from the shops' entrances, but Dinkins has not ordered the police to enforce it. Instead, he appointed a commission to review his handling...