Word: faults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said she does not fault the UHS specialist for not having a detailed understanding of RSI, because the syndrome is relatively new. "I think [the treatment at UHS] is about as effective as you might expect," she said...
Many of my classmates who answered thequestionnaire we sent out for the Radcliffe 50threunion book wished that Radcliffe had worriedmore about our future than our decorum. Sixty-fourpercent found fault with the almost nonexistentcareer counseling. The main advice that we weregiven at graduation was to take the secretarialcourse given in the summer by the Katherine GibbsSchool in the basement of Fay House. Defying thisindifference to our professional futures, a fewclassmates went to graduate school to becomedoctors, lawyers and academics, but most of usrepaired to the suburbs and became active membersof the PTA. Not until after our children were oldenough...
That was a bit of a disappointment. A last triumph, a standoff against encroaching fate, would have crowned the evening and rounded memory with a perfect dramatic closure. Too much to expect perhaps, but in a sense that was Sinatra's own fault. Too much, he had always shown us, was the least we could expect from him. Not as excess, mind, but as abundance. So much heart, so much sorrow, such delicacy and such braggadocio, all for the music he made indelible, with enough to spare so that it spilled over into his life and into all the public...
...says she does not fault the UHS specialist for not having a detailed understanding of RSI, because the syndrome is relatively...
...lapse into Pidgin English, reminiscent of the language that G.I.s in Korea employed to palaver with shoeshine boys and barmaids? Maybe committee investigators were told to keep their eyes out for a tape on which Bruce Lindsey says to Maria Hsia, a fund raiser prosecutors considered generous to a fault, "Listen, missy, you tell Charlie Trie boss needs money chop-chop...