Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, the new plan would eliminate what members of the Doty Committee considered a basic structural flaw in the present Gen Ed program: the diverse backgrounds of the students taking lower-level Gen Ed courses. As outstanding schools offer their students more and more college-level preparation, the gap between their graduates and those of less advanced schools grows. Sophomores, too, may come into lower-level Gen Ed courses with usually good preparation in their freshman courses. To confine well-prepared students to lower-level Gen Ed courses will come to seen increasingly foolish, but to boost the standards...
...economic plan, which was designed to give British industry and labor a goal to aim at-and a bit of a kick in that direction. Drawn up by Economics Minister George Brown and in preparation for eleven months, the 494-page plan marshals impressive statistics, recites almost every known flaw in the industrial machine and insists that Britain speed up the growth of its economy to achieve a 25% gain in national output...
...last year's general convention, which implied, to him, that women were "ordered" to the diaconate just as men are. To close this loophole, a committee proposed a new resolution enumerating the "chief duties" of deaconesses that excluded distribution of Communion. Ex-Lawyer Pike quickly spied the flaw: distributing Communion could be deemed a "minor function" of deaconesses and thus permissible. Finally the committee brought in a no-nonsense substitute resolution that flatly stated: "Deaconesses may not be permitted to administer the elements of the Holy Communion...
...Hours is also enlivened by a couple of wild parties that are good to watch, thanks chiefly to a stunning Negro in a low-cut evening dress, of whom one of the guests says: "Under the shower she shines like a horse!" But the film's major flaw is a phony, febrile ending that shows the older and wiser married couple dispiritedly going back to their premarital assignations because, as the sound track intones, "The hours of love are scattered and fleeting...
...scheduled to be the longest space flight on record. It almost became one of the shortest. And the threat to the ambitious mission became doubly dramatic as the fortunes of Gemini 5 oscillated wildly last week between disaster and promise, perfection and near-fatal flaw...