Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Students love when [demonstrations] fail,"says Kirshner, who teaches Science A-35, "Matterin the Universe," "They love it when the professoris humiliated...
...horrendous is that, despite their circus-like choreography, childishly spectacular special effects, ostentatious costumes and sets, scores worthy of John Williams and embarrassingly inane lyrics, people shell out upwards of 50 bucks a ticket and get all gussied up to go see them. For some reason that I fail to comprehend, these events get away with masquerading as high culture. In this video age, does anything that appears in a theater automatically deserve that appellation? Even someone dressed up as a cat named Rum Tum Tiger...
Consequently, we continue to see inadequate social policies which fail to address the root cause of the problem. We see political nostrums. We see political nostrums which are meant to soothe guilty consciences and inadequate policy responses to a widespread and devastating social problem...
...plaintiffs' demand for racial data to be collected on teachers as part of a broad new plan to hold them more accountable for students' behavior. The settlement warned that "staff members who are deficient in student-behavior management will not be retained in their positions if they fail to improve...
...assert that blacks -- who indeed have more of the skin pigment than other races -- possess superior and supernatural traits that can be ascribed to the magical qualities of neuromelanin, a little-studied substance in the brain. Yet while neuromelanin is markedly different from the skin pigment, the melanists often fail to differentiate between the two and ignore the fact that all humans have similar amounts of neuromelanin. According to the melanists, neuromelanin can convert light and magnetic fields to sound and back again, and can capture sunlight and hold it in a "memory mode." Furthermore, they say, melanin granules...