Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FARC said Marulanda feared an assassination attempt, but many Colombians fear that the guerrillas aren't really serious about peace. Sureshot's snub makes the U.S. nervous as well. If Pastrana's efforts fail to hold Colombia together--if the FARC solidifies its sovereignty over coca-land--the U.S. war on drugs in Colombia could unravel. Washington spends more than $100 million annually to help Colombia's national police destroy coca crops but to little avail--largely because the FARC earns 40% of its estimated $1 billion annual income from a tax it levies on coca farmers to protect their...
...tenured faculty are asked by the Office of the Dean to write confidential letters for the eyes only of the deans, the ad hoc committee, and the president. The use of the confidential letter reflects the fear that otherwise tenured faculty will bow to pressures from their colleagues and fail to express their candid opinions to officers of the administration...
...Undergraduate Council has not started the New Year off with a bang. In last Sunday night's meeting, the council gave signs that the proposal to cut some of the dead weight from off of the large and unwieldy student government would fail-again. The council also decided to take it upon itself to decide how to spend the $40,000 of student money it lost for almost a decade...
...stated that a strong reason for not prosecuting Citibank for money laundering is that "no one wants to see a major American institution lose its banking license." So now we have huge banks like Citibank that are not only too big to fail but also too big to prosecute. If the facts warrant it, a bank should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and if the result is the loss of its license, so be it. Citibank should have considered the consequences from the beginning. CHAD JONES Studio City, Calif...
...function in the bloodstream for days. While the drug requires weekly injections for life at an annual cost of more than $60,000, it has enabled most of the handful of ADA-deficient children to survive. However, it provided only marginal help for Ashi, and she began to fail...