Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highest levels of the national media talent and ambition such as Sheery's are almost the norm. In a tremendously competitive business, ethical responsibility and even editorial supervision can too easily fall by the wayside while a reporter is intent on the big, prizewinning story. Wetlaufer describes this flaw, this loss of persepective and judgment that sometimes occurs in journalism, precisely...
...verities. Many of his prescriptions have caused Jackson and Cuomo to grumble, but they saved their full-throated ire for Clinton's rebuke of Sister Souljah. Common decency dictates that those seeking high office be willing to condemn the rap singer's racist ravings, but Jackson perceived a "character flaw" in Clinton's "sneak attack" on Souljah at an "emergency" meeting of Jackson's "rainbow coalition." Speaking of himself in the third person (an affectation common to megalomaniacs), Jackson denounced Clinton's courage as a "Machiavellian maneuver" designed "purely to appeal to conservative whites by containing Jackson and isolating Jackson...
...just follow your logic all the way through. I would say that, my God, you'd better cut out general elections too, because they're certainly not scientific either. How do I even know that a cross section of America shows up to vote? My God, we have a flaw in the system. We'd better go to polling to select our candidates, right? Just follow your logic all the way down to the ridiculous end, and you come out there...
...book's one flaw -- oddly enough, given its thesis -- is that Greider works too hard to achieve a rationally analytical prose style. His one first- person chapter on newspapers (winningly contrasting his early days on the blue-collar Cincinnati Post with the mature Ivy League-dominated Washington Post) serves as a road-not-taken reminder that in the struggle to express ideas -- as well as in the battle for political rectitude -- personal experience beats position papers hands down...
...Southern Observatory consist of a single, vast expanse of glass, thin (17.7 cm) and very flexible. To control wobbling and stabilize the orientation, these mirrors, like giant catcher's mitts, will be constantly readjusted by 180 computer-activated steel "fingers." A prototype mirror has already proved its worth. A flaw identical to the one that crippled the Hubble Space Telescope was easily corrected by adjusting the mirror's shape...