Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...budget savings fail to cover the costs ofthe plan, argues Emanuel, universal access wouldhave to be phased in slowly, perhaps over eight toten years. And this, he says, may weaken Clinton'scase. "It doesn't give the people what theythought they were buying," he says...
...speak from experience, having taught a Core course ("The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization") since the late 1970s. Over the years I have worked closely with the administrators of the Core, who are very experienced and able academics, but even our combined efforts cannot provide a fail-safe yearly calculus for enrollments. If we underestimate the numbers of students, then I have to go out and find additional teaching help at the last minute--which inhibits the kind of careful planning that I need for the course. If we overestimate the numbers of students, then I have...
...important part of planning a large course is setting up the teaching staff and getting them prepared. The ominous uncertainties of course-enrollments in Core courses prevents the professor from giving all the necessary commitments to the teaching staff. Worse still, the professor may fail to get commitments from talented teachers who cannot be hired, if they can be hired at all, until late September, when the results of shopping period finally emerge...
Spicy curly fries or teriyaki beef tips could be stacked miles high on the serving line, but every lunch without fail I will head for the tuna drawer...
These dual meanings bespeak the two perspectives from which Israel and its backers regard the recent entente. There is one essential difference between the accord's Labor sponsors and its Likud opponents: The latter fail to recognize that the uneasy standoff in the Middle East, though it has proven durable, has an essentially temporary character...