Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...awry in Eastern Europe, Shepsle says, particularly if parties fail to build consensus because of the relatively small proportion of votes needed to be elected...
Hearing this band a few years ago changed the whole way I thought about pop music and what it could do; I'd try and say how, but words would fail me, as they seem never to fail Scott Miller. (His new band, by the way, is called the Loud Family: their album, Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things, came out early this year. If you liked that, you'll need this; if you get this, you'll find yourself wanting the Loud Family record...
...Nobel. North's research showed that contrary to popular belief, free-market forces alone won't generate growth. Strong political and legal institutions, including courts and patent laws, are needed as well. Fogel contested the orthodox view that slavery was unprofitable in the U.S. and thus destined to fail. He found that it was economically efficient and collapsed only because of the Civil War. Attacked for having an idea that violated political correctness even before the term was invented, Fogel maintained that his theory should not be taken as an endorsement of slavery, which he considered inhumane, whatever its economic...
Within the undergraduate concentrations, manyprofessors say department courses fail to build onwhat is taught in Expos. The result is somethingakin to an academic free...
...with their families. Harvard should not encourage the "anal" tendencies of some pre-meds by forcing all Chemistry 30 students to spend their vacation studying. I am writing this letter because, as a non-concentrator, I can. I'm not trying to impress the professor and I won't fail Chemistry 30 because...