Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is much debate and no single explanation for the paradox. To begin with, economists generally agree that official figures understate productivity, though they quarrel sharply about how much and why. It is clear too that many buyers fail to get the most out of their computers--some because they try to make the computers perform functions to which they are not really adaptable; others because they buy computers more powerful and more expensive than they truly need; others still because they fail to appreciate how hard it will be to train their employees to use the machines effectively...
...devaluation were devastating financially and psychologically. They reinforced the impulse of global investors to pull their capital out of any country where they sense the slightest risk. Sinai explains that because of Russia's thousands of nuclear weapons, many considered its economy too important to be allowed to fail. Yet it did collapse, and investors drew a bitter lesson: in theory any country could "stiff the creditors" just as Russia...
...impeachment of a President in the nation's history, partisan members will bicker and spit--but Hyde's performance will go a long way toward either reassuring people that the process is orderly and rational or convincing them that it is a witch hunt. "If I were to fail," he told TIME last week, "it would negate everything I have done before." And even those who know him best wonder which Henry Hyde it is that Americans will meet in the coming days: the man who Commerce Secretary William Daley, a Democrat, says exhibits "exemplary character and the highest personal...
...what? Most Republicans now concede that any effort to unseat Clinton will almost certainly fail, barring a Republican landslide in the November midterm election or some unforeseen bombshell from independent counsel Ken Starr. Even if the House votes articles of impeachment against the President, and even if the Republicans pick up as many as five seats in the Senate this fall, they will still be seven short of what the Senate needs to convict Clinton and remove him from office. "Do the math," says a Republican Senate aide. "Clinton may have to go through the disgrace of articles...
...Schindler's List to share with the audience excerpts from the journal she kept during the making of The Color Purple. We learned that Oprah was nervous before the filming began and impressed with her own performance. When John F. Kennedy Jr. came on the show, she could not fail to mention that she and Maria Shriver were the best of friends. Surprise, surprise. Two wealthy and prominent women obsessed with their self-image hang out together in their spare time...