Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...held for special occasions, public relations and international events," says a party member. Some political analysts in Havana even talk of Fidel becoming a figurehead and letting others carry out reforms the staunch communist finds repugnant. Of course, with Raul spearheading the changes, Fidel is better insulated if they fail...
...Weiwen, head of the exchange section of the Bank of China, because "our methods of detecting fakes are primitive." In recent months, however, banks have begun to install equipment such as money scanners to ferret out forgeries. The Industrial and Commerical Bank of China even fines employees who fail to detect fake currency...
...long as the burden of devising multiple coping strategies, both personal and political, falls to women, their enterprises are bound to fail...
...intimidating their people and limiting outside influences, the Hutu leaders are intent on keeping as many Rwandans as possible from returning to their native country in order to strengthen their bargaining position with the new government in Kigali. If talks fail, control of the camps will provide another alternative. "We will attack, it is clear," says Karera. Gesturing toward a crowd gathered at a food-distribution center in Katale, he adds with a smile, "Do you really think this situation can last?" Foreign observers in Goma agree. "This is a classic environment for guerrilla incursions," says Captain Declan O'Brien...
Perhaps the only disadvantage of our having direct access to the meat of the "highway" is, shall we say, the "road construction" that we must face. In particular, network connections often "go down," or fail to operate, on Harvard's highway. We can describe the operation of our network adapters in terms of the highway metaphor...