Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...percent" to which Bender referred are that relatively small group of candidates who show unmistakably clear signs of academic promise of national, even international, caliber. All of those highly gifted applicants are admitted unless there is a serious flaw in some other part of their application...
...preference system for minorities and women is particularly egregious. But it nicely illustrates a conceptual flaw common to many forms of reverse discrimination: they redistribute inequality instead of reducing it. Is the proper question, Why are there not more blacks among those being anointed millionaires by the FCC? Or is it, Why is the FCC anointing millionaires in the first place...
...there was a logical flaw in your training, a logical flaw in the reasoning of Harvard deans who say that acquaintance rape can be blamed on a woman's failure to say a "forceful" and "articulate...
...political terms the plan's biggest flaw was its perceived failure to distribute the burden equitably. Its reliance on regressive taxes like the levy on gasoline meant that the brunt would fall on low- and middle-income taxpayers. The White House and congressional leadership had hoped to overwhelm qualms about the pact's fairness by arguing that it was the best compromise that could be achieved. But as soon as the plan was presented, the Administration, House Speaker Tom Foley and minority leader Robert Michel promptly found themselves absorbing fire from left, right and center. The plan's Medicare component...
This is essentially a textual flaw; Fox's rendering of the play is extremely faithful to the playwright's vision. The set is minimal but artful; all the stage directions are followed closely with one exception; the performers effectively adhere to their particular temperaments as defined by the playwright; and the speech is simple, plain and relatively unaffected...