Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...niggers, chinks and spics are next," the other memo said. "We are all in favor of a white, heterosexual school." The typed memo claimed that the school "fail[s] to foster controversial views" and that "homosexuality is unnatural...
...outlaw technique; you cannot repeal biology. And even the outlawing of this technique--Britain, for example, forbids the cloning of humans--will fail. It is too simple, too replicable. No amount of regulation by the FDA or the NIH or even the FBI will stop...
Those who perpetuate the idea that political processes can help us to slip out of the network of joys and pains that social relations create fail to account for the sense in which the engine driving us cannot move without these fuels. Actually, the forces that govern us are better described as dialectical, involving both our individual impulses and the dictates of our social surroundings...
...much as 75% of the cocaine that reaches the U.S. The two-year-old government of President Ernesto Zedillo, which succeeded a regime peppered with charges of corruption, had made great efforts to be seen as a credible partner in the war against drugs. Why then would Zedillo fail to send an early warning when Gutierrez was first suspected--and as a result embarrass the Administration? The timing was especially unfortunate. The arrest took place less than two weeks before Clinton is to send his annual report to Congress certifying Mexico's commitment to the antidrug effort. While Clinton will...
...historian, therefore, Deng's death raises a different but also absorbing set of echoes and parallels to the past. The 15 years between 1978, when Deng returned to power after two major purges that failed to remove him from active contention for the leadership, and 1993, when his health obviously began to fail, have left him an ineradicable role in future accounts of China. These parallels seem to fit fairly neatly into two molds. One, familiar from several earlier dynasties, is the role of the man who has the delicate task of consolidating the work of an ambitious, tough, erratic...