Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Most people interested in public interest law will still apply to firms to have a fail-safe option," said Walsh, who spent last summer working in the criminal division at the Department of Justice. "But once you have a job that's paying you $1,800 a week versus a job that doesn't pay at all, there's some pressure for you to leave behind public interest...
...years," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "The clergy is very careful in its response, because they represent a challenge but also a tremendous reinvigoration of faith." Although some instances -- such as the apparition at Fatima in Portugal in 1917 -- have entered mainstream doctrine, hundreds more each year fail to win the church's seal of approval. Fowler plans to move to Florida next month. Beatification may have to wait a while...
...Gone, an R.-and-B. reworking of Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi. But she has mostly contempt for alternative rock. "Everybody says Kurt Cobain was a great writer. I don't see it," Mitchell says. "Why is he a hero? Whining and killing yourself--I fail to see the heroism in that...
...surplus money accumulates easily, and many people think that savings are incidental. But practically nothing beyond a hand-to-mouth existence can be maintained without profitably invested savings. So even the desperate remedy of having artificially low interest rates to stimulate business in Asia and elsewhere is bound to fail unless accompanied by adequate voluntary or compulsory savings plans in which money is invested prudently. Excessive investment on credit in risky projects needs to be curbed. People should invest in such ideas only if they can carry the loss of the investment. JENS MEDER Auckland, New Zealand...
...first two weeks here on a ward that has thus far seen no deaths. But tonight, from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m., he is the on-call chaplain for the entire hospital. In his pocket is a sky-blue beeper that will sound the moment someone's vital signs fail. He wonders how he will respond. Last night's on-call was faced with the death of an eight-year-old boy mangled by dogs. "I don't know if I could have..." Baker begins and then trails...