Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process 50,000 applications a year. So what? The Harvard College admissions office copes with nearly as many, and while you may get a thin letter from them explaining that you're not a steroid-addled jock or a ninth-generation legacy named Winthrop, they won't simply fail to process your application...
...court battles and ultimately to jail. Now the police possess a faster and more effective method of keeping drinkers off the roads. Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have passed administrative-license-revocati on laws that give police the right to seize the licenses of drivers who fail or refuse sobriety tests...
...Scowcroft's influence was perhaps most evident in Bush's handling of the gulf war. While the two men were angling for bluefish off the Maine coast a year ago, Scowcroft suggested the strategy Bush would pursue over the following year, predicting that sanctions would fail to oust Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, that war would be necessary, but that the U.S. should not expand its objective to include Saddam's removal from power...
Scientists now know that implantation is one of the most difficult hurdles in the human reproductive system. It is estimated that even among perfectly fertile couples, as many as one-third of all pregnancies are lost, before anyone knows they have begun, because the embryos fail to implant in the uterus wall. Only in the past few years have researchers begun to understand why this...
...different yardstick than the one used to measure work done by whites. Worst of all is the feeling that you are participating in an unfair experiment, in which the reputation of the entire race is riding on your performance: if you succeed, you are judged an exception; if you fail, well, what did anyone expect from a black...