Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just because they failed either. Anyone can fail, even fail abysmally. The special accomplishment of the Moscow plotters was to speed the total destruction of everything they wanted to preserve and ensure the triumph of the trends they most hated and wanted to stop...
...Goldman Sachs International: "A country that exports 15% of its GNP cannot turn its back on the world economy and hope to prosper." But Bush only grudgingly and recently has begun to consider measures to make the U.S. more competitive. His muzzy pronouncements about creating a new world order fail to address the need to redirect the energies formerly focused on the cold war to long-term economic revival...
...help the law by exposing the painstaking accumulation of facts required to prove guilt. It is a dispiriting truth, however, that viewers fail to demand fuller coverage of proceedings that don't involve Kennedys and panty hose -- like the trials of Manuel Noriega or S&L bandit Charles Keating Jr. But showmanship still counts. Would it be any surprise if the cameras tempted lawyers, witnesses and judges to posture a bit more than they already would for the jury? Maybe these matters were better understood back in 1962, when Raymond Burr, the star of Perry Mason, sought a meeting with...
Maus is, above all, a story of a family and how something which is now, in so many minds, an abstract historic events, can still touch everyday lives. Spiegelman realizes the historical importance of the Holocaust--how could he fail...
...time at which so many fail to even attempt to understand the Holocaust, Maus is a welcome and important work. Although its readers will learn about the Holocaust, they will, perhaps, learn something more important about what the lessons of the Nazi project are for humanity...