Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of the Ad Board fail to realize that Harvard--despite how much they might dislike the idea--is no longer in the 1950s. Because the penalties the Ad Board assesses are so harsh, the rulings it hands down are a patchwork of different penalties and it is only the unlucky--not the most guilty--who get punished...
While most people acknowledge the right to life, many people fail to see the connection between the inalienable right to life and protecting the unborn child on the grounds that life does not begin at conception...
Bernstein blasted anti-abortion activists for "rely[ing] on a fallacy of equivocation." He said they fail to distinguish between "the potential" and "the actual" human being...
...major studios. Not that they didn't trot out their usual quota of ambitious and/or self-important "prestige" projects--films whose stars and makers might reasonably have felt they had a shot at winning heaps of major nominations. Why did so many of these offerings fail? Has Hollywood lost the knack for marketing serious pictures? Take blustery movies about killing Englishmen: Does anyone really think Braveheart (last year's Best Picture) is significantly better than Michael Collins (only two minor nominations this year)? TIME asked a pair of experts--a top studio publicist and a former studio head (and Academy...
...college students, we are exposed to and expected to live up to the conventions of adulthood on a daily basis, and each day we succeed or fail on and at many different levels. In many ways we are living out an increasingly nuanced version of the life we've led since kindergarten, when we first entered into a world of social convention and conformity. Since then, we've always been looking to buy into the positives of conforming without selling out to the negatives...