Word: failings
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Moreover, such acts fail to allow the "appropriators" to examine their own psyches since they are content to live in a fantasy that is sustained by their opposition to the "inferior other...
...What has happened to this country," he asked, "that a Congressional committee could be asked to inquire whether any American official of whatever administration would fail to move heaven and earth to fight for the release of American POWs and an accounting of the missing...
...when cellular glues become too sticky or fail to hold, the outcome is often disastrous. In cancer, for instance, advancing tumors often secrete an enzyme that chews up their matrix, freeing malignant cells to leak into the bloodstream. Some inevitably stick and proliferate at sites elsewhere in the body. Thus the lethal process of metastasis may be viewed as a breakdown in stickiness...
America's structural burdens have hit home most profoundly in terms of jobs. The U.S. workplace is "in a profound, historic state of turmoil that for millions of individuals is approaching panic," according to labor consultant Dan Lacey, publisher of the newsletter Workplace Trends. Official statistics fail to reveal the extent of the pain. Unemployment stands at 7.6%, far lower than the 1982 high of 10.8%, but more people are experiencing distress. A comprehensive tally would include workers who are employed well below their skill level, those who cannot find more than a part-time job, people earning poverty-level...
...other measures fail, Rudenstinesaid, Harvard will have to consider joining thebidding war and offering special scholarships forBlack students, "The bidding piece of it is what Iwould call the last, last resort," he said...