Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flaw in the argument is that it makes ethnic hatreds a cause rather than a symptom. In reality, the war in Bosnia, just like the war in Croatia, is a calculated effort by the Serb government to capture as much land as possible as a means of creating a Greater Serbia. The overwhelmingly Serbian Yugoslav Federal Army has lent soldiers, weapons, training and support to the so-called Bosnian Serbs...
...presentation on Sunday, Perot proposed that a term-limitation law automatically take effect if legislators fail to meet preordained deficit reduction goals. His idea, though unique in its style, is plagued by the same flaw as other proposals like...
...much Clinton revises his plan will depend on how successful Republicans -- or for that matter, Democrats -- are at calling attention to such contradictions. Some Republicans believe it may already be too late. "Bill Clinton has overcome the chief flaw of Democrats of the last generation: they talked 'left,' legislated 'left' and were therefore 'left' with no appeal to most Americans," said Wayne Berman, a former Assistant Secretary at the Commerce Department under Bush. "What Clinton is doing is feinting to the center but legislating to the left...
...wish to speculate on the veracity of Professor Mansfield's claim. And I also feel little need to defend the Crimson from Ali's suggestion that by quoting Mansfield's opinion in an article it is "buttressing racism." I only seek to point to a central and characteristic flaw in Ali's arguments...
...additive may help people who suffer from sickle-cell anemia, the inherited illness that afflicts up to 100,000 black Americans. A preliminary study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that butyrate, a widely used flavor enhancer, can overcome the basic cause of the disease. A genetic flaw leads the body to make abnormal hemoglobin, the blood protein that carries essential oxygen...