Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard never fails to tout its traditions of excellence. But what the administration often ignores--and would fail to reward should it prevail in the current union negotiations--is the essential contribution of the clerical and technical workers in perpetuating that excellence...
...value. Says Orson s followers, he said, would monitor the candidates to assess how well they toe the policy lines he has drawn. If Bush and Clinton both satisfy him -- an unlikely prospect -- Perot would stand down. If only one does, he might endorse that candidate. If they both fail his test, he implied, he might heed the calls from remaining fans to compete...
...problem did not recur, and by the end of July the new liver had tripled in size, matching a healthy human organ. But late last month a fever set in, followed by an infection -- possibly caused by an injection of X ray-sensitive dye. The liver began to fail, and then, within a week, though the infection had started to subside, the man was dead of massive bleeding in the brain...
...lamps. Cars that cannot be repaired are salvaged piecemeal and turned into donkey carts. Much of this unofficial labor is carried out in the open air and is called jua kali -- "hot sun." As multinational companies are driven away by government policies and demands for kickbacks, as state enterprises fail and lay off workers, the jua kali economy is booming...
...growing up, over its temptations, its drugs, its overheated sex, its atmosphere of astonishing casual violence. Last week on the family-values dais in Houston, after Bush's acceptance speech, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a conspicuous honored guest. In the first few minutes of Terminator 2, parents do not fail to notice, Schwarzenegger, in order to steal someone's motorcycle and clothes, drives a long-bladed knife through a man's shoulder, pinning him to a pool table, and fries another man's hands and face on the griddle of a restaurant. Ten-year- olds watch Schwarzenegger's disgusting violence...