Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report's most serious flaw, however, appears to be the lack of a plan for implementation. Influence exerted by President Neil L. Rudenstine or by department heads on existing search committees (looking for deans, tutors or masters) could be the main engine in pulling more faculty into the fray of college life...
...with the mid-July All-Star Game. Early TV ratings were higher than expected. To hype fan interest, the owners had offended baseball purists by adding a second tier of postseason play-offs complete with football-like wild-card teams beginning this year. (The gimmick may have a fatal flaw: the Texas Rangers would currently qualify for the play- offs even though 10 other teams in the American League have better records.) The players, armed with a strike fund of nearly $200 million in hoarded licensing revenue, appeared united as they braced for a lengthy strike...
...surgeon's touch with the drop volley and the ability to cut off return angles with quick rushes to the net. Her serve has diminished to a mortal 97 m.p.h. Mortal, that is, when compared with her serve of five years ago. But what's a flaw or two when the achievement itself can never be erased by the passage of time...
Indeed, if there was one remediable flaw holding the team back, it was a lack of confidence...
...there has been a consistent criticism of Mandela over the years, it is that he is too willing to see the good in people. If this is a flaw, it is one he accepts because it grows out of his great strength, his generosity of heart toward his enemies. He defends himself by noting that thinking too well of people sometimes makes them behave better than they otherwise would. He believes in the essential goodness of the human heart, even though he has spent a lifetime suffering the wounds of heartless authorities...