Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...together. Four republics -- Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia and Armenia -- have vowed not to take part in the scheduled March 17 referendum, while Latvia was leaning toward boycotting it. But Gorbachev's message also carried the kind of rally-round- the-flag overtones sounded by resurgent Communist hard-liners. Should he fail to re-create the Union with popular consent, he will be pressed by the reactionaries to resort to force -- or move aside...
...myself am confused when I see demonstrators chanting "Support the troops!" Initially, my reaction is, "What an obvious thing to say! Almost everyone supports the troops themselves; no one wants them to fail and come home in body bags...
...prescription: smaller budgets and fewer films like Dick Tracy, last summer's comic-book extravaganza starring Beatty and Madonna that cost an estimated $100 million to make and market. While the movie has grossed nearly $200 million in theaters worldwide, Katzenberg complains that it has "static" characters who fail to evolve, and he suspects that it was not worth the expense or the 10 years of development effort. "Thanks to the dictates of the blockbuster mentality," he writes, "the shelf life of many movies has come to be somewhat shorter than ((that of)) a supermarket tomato...
Arms purchases on such a scale could not have occurred without the implicit ! approval of governments. "A deliberate effort to fail to be informed," says Cordesman, "is just another form of collaboration." In a belated acknowledgment that arming one perceived monster to fight another can boomerang, Secretary of State James Baker and his Soviet counterpart, Alexander Bessmertnykh, issued a joint statement last week calling for restraint in the "spiraling arms race" in the Middle East. A gesture, most likely, both too little and too late...
...than $2.3 billion today from about $600 million in 1970, the quality of a CPS education has fallen steadily. ACT scores at 38 of 45 of Chicago's public schools have declined to the lowest four percentile in the nation. More than half of all Chicago high school students fail to graduate. Those that do often can only read at a seventh grade level...