Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even now, some of CDF's scientists fret that they have overlooked some fatal flaw. They believe there is still 1 chance in 400 that they could be wrong, which seems extremely small to laypeople. But it is sobering to remember that odds that seem like a sure bet at a racetrack are not enough to support scientific claims. Over the coming months, the lingering uncertainty that surrounds last week's announcement should be dispelled as more data are collected, not just by CDF but by a rival detector that goes by the name of DZero. If the top really...
...didn't a store it on floppy drive. Why? Because he was reckless...but maybe more importantly because he had a hard copy. He had a xerox. In other words, what were the chances of both things going wrong? Well, as it turns out, it was his own character flaw that made him essentially lose that thesis in the first place...
...principal flaw in the University's gradual shift to electronic security is the limited access it offers to student residences. In short, students' card keys permit them to gain entry to their own houses, but to no others...
...burden of decision lies with NATO again. Yet the most powerful military alliance in the world shows no signs of being ready to actually prevent the Serbs form taking Gorazde. Rather, the focus is still on somehow convincing the Serbs to come back to the negotiating table. The flaw in this strategy is manifest: why should the Serbs negotiate when they can take their prize at very low cost? The West still insists on treating the Serbs as wayward youths rather than the war criminals they...
...finds himself in that same prosecutor's cross hairs, which is sure to launch widespread speculation about what character flaw got him there. The cool impatience that helped lead to his removal last May as White House communications director is not reserved merely for the Fourth Estate. Says an Administration colleague who claims to both like and respect him, "George sometimes gets this look on his face like you're wasting his time talking to him. He's brilliant, but he doesn't know everything." Of course, he may not know that. And accurately or no, many continue to feel...