Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown said politicians fail to address the "issues at the heart of the frustration of voters like the' angry white...
...know how to do it, but it takes years of experience to work with it safely," says Dean. Moreover, it is almost impossible for amateurs to mix thoroughly the ammonium nitrate with the fuel oil. (Commercial manufacturers use industrial-size blenders for the job.) Clumps of ammonium nitrate will fail to detonate--leaving investigators with good clues about the materials used to make the bomb. That is apparently what happened in California one morning in 1990, when a disgruntled engineer detonated a truck filled with 2,000 lbs. of his own batch of ANFO outside a branch office...
...want popular elections. In an analytic poll that the council conducted last week, we found that 68 percent of the student body wants this popular and necessary reform. Surely, state legislators used to know candidates for the United States Senate better than the people, but did the republic fail when direct elections of senators was instituted? Of course not. Have no fear--the council will still exist if we trust the students with the task of choosing its leaders...
Hopefully, neither of these arguments will persuade more than a quarter of the council. But, unfortunately, they might. If popular elections fail tomorrow night, then students will have the opportunity to amend the constitution via a referendum next week. Yet, if the council fails to approve popular elections tomorrow night and if students do not successfully amend our rules, I will sadly announce my resignation as president. I do not want to pretend that I, or the council that I lead, have some sort of mandate to do anything anymore...
...Posner's first-hand experience as a judge--and his inarguable brilliance--means that we should listen to his reason about why juries sometimes fail. As a legal scholar and a judge, he has a privileged standpoint from which to argue that a jury of laymen cannot be expected to understand the complexities of certain types of civil cases...