Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...healthy. Journalists have gone from a healthy skepticism to a destructive cynicism. The House bank story has got far more attention that it deserved. Meantime, virtually no attention is being paid to the $400 billion worth of hot checks being written by the Federal Government. I think the media fail to deal with substance in favor of any minor scandal that comes along...
...Failing to plan is planning to fail, the adage goes. President Neil L. Rudenstine is determined not to fail...
...those in power have articulated sensible ways to deal with this disaffection. Conservatives fail to admit that discrimination still exists, often hidden away from the federal government in the private sector...
Furthermore, majority and minority liberals fail to acknowledge what white working-class voters have lost in what has become a contest for increasingly limited government resources. A city's best schools, its best jobs and promotions, federal housing subsidies--all came to be contested by Blacks for the first time, and rightly...
Unless you do something really stupid (like fail a course or get checked into University Health Services for alcohol poisoning), nobody will call up and offer words of wisdom. But if you want help or advice, you can get it. All you have...