Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first act as president, Clarke would immediately change the Harvard grading system. Grading will no longer be based on the infamous "bell curve." Instead, all members of oppressed minorities will get A's--and all oppressors will fail...
...billion in annual income. Partly for such reasons, experts predict that the latest rate hikes will have little impact on Christmas sales this year. They note that retailers did a respectable, if unspectacular back- to-school business last summer, which usually augurs a solid Christmas season. Moreover, many consumers fail to recognize that the Fed's moves can increase the interest on their credit cards, so they go right on spending. History shows that it takes at least a year for a change in interest rates to spread through the economy, so the full impact will not be felt until...
...meeting, focuses on a section of white matter -- the orbital cortex -- that sits just above the eyes and modulates impulse control. In autopsies of 20 suicide victims, Mann's group found that in almost every case, not enough serotonin had reached that key portion of the brain. The neurological fail-safes that normally prevent people from hurting themselves seem to have been disabled. "Having the biochemical deficiency alone is not enough to make you commit suicide," Mann says. "Stress alone is not enough. But if you have the pre-existing condition and you pile on a major depression...
...message administrators project is research first, lectures second. Students suffer as a result. In the long run, academic fields suffer as well, because jaded professors fail to usher talented new minds into the subject. The system is both harmful and counterproductive. Jake Yeston...
There were more surprises to come when Zhirinovsky met journalists at the Sheraton Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Such encounters rarely fail to provoke him to crude histrionics. This time, however, he kept himself tightly under control. Amid a barrage of hostile questions, his face expressed only earnest deliberation. His fists, normally clenched and waving, relaxed and retreated to his sides. Throughout the day, the Liberal Democratic Party leader politely dodged questions about his past excesses. He was not an anti-Semite, he protested. He was not a fascist. Such demurrals amounted to a display of astonishing incongruity...