Word: failings
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...found that Clark should have ordered the local officials to raise taxes rather than doing so himself, the court split bitterly on the question of whether federal judges may intervene in matters of taxation. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White said that to deny judges that right "would fail to take account of the obligations of local governments . . . to fulfill the requirements that the Constitution imposes on them." But Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the dissent, acidly observed, "Today's casual embrace of taxation imposed by the unelected, life-tenured federal judiciary disregards fundamental precepts for the democratic control...
...committee refused to approve the welfare bill, which was modeled after a similar program in Wisconsin that cuts withholds some benefits when impoverished students fail to attend school...
...sparking fresh criticism of % aggressive college marketing by brewers. The beer companies insist that they target only students who are legally old enough to drink. But because the legal drinking age is 21 in all 50 states, many students fall under the limit. Brewers often engage in promotions that fail to distinguish among students of different ages. Miller Brewing, for example, sponsors Friday afternoon beer bashes for 2,000 students at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Until local high schools complained that their students were tanking up at the free pours, university officials made little effort to screen participants...
...less sexual way of life. While he does not sexually exploit women as the two most evil male characters do, this is due to his priestly duties and possibly to his homosexuality. As a representative of Christianity, he influences, through religion, the two women in the work who most fail to live to the potential of their own womanhood. The first, the elder Etain (Patty Goldman), Conor's mother, dies in child birth seemingly because she is afraid of it. The other, Elen (Jennifer Harris), Angus' molested daughter, turns from her incestuousness to chastity...
...will be occupied over the next two years filling orders placed by the Soviet Union. Bonn has pledged that a unified Germany will honor those contracts. "The Soviets cannot generate economic success on their own," says Pieroth, "and it is in no one's interest for them to fail...