Word: flaw
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...doesn't take a wing-tipped M.B.A. to spot the flaw here--much of the world is in or near recession, demand for personal computers is slowing, so are corporate profits. Amid that sluggishness, the Labor Department said Friday that unemployment inched higher in February--to 4.4%, from 4.3% the previous month. And the prices of raw materials like oil and copper, on average, are at their lowest in decades. This is not the stuff of sudden price hikes in consumer items. "It's beyond me how anyone can be worried about inflation," economist Allen Sinai at Primark Decision Economics...
...result of Starr's conduct during his investigation, it seems clear that Congress will not renew the law this year without substantial revisions. The most urgent flaw of the current statute is that the independent counsel, though himself appointed to oversee and investigate public officials, has no oversight himself. There was no one to monitor him as he spent more than $40 million on his campaign...
...result of Starr's conduct during his investigation, it seems clear that Congress will not renew the law this year without substantial revisions. The most urgent flaw of the current statute is that the independent counsel, though himself appointed to oversee and investigate public officials, has no oversight himself. There was no one to monitor him as he spent more than $40 million on his campaign...
...himself, declared that Elvis "steps from the pages" of the predecessor to this book, Last Train to Memphis, and much the same can be said of this one. The most impressive quality of this book is Guralnick's ability to depict Elvis' life and detach the real person, a flawed yet well-intentioned human being, from the frozen images that make up his legend. The main flaw of this book is not one of flawed research but of excessive enthusiasm; he tells the reader more of Elvis' "sad story" than he or she may want to know...
...much the better that the Y2K bug is something akin to the original sin of technological society, a mortal flaw bred in the very bones of the modern world. And that the proposed solution is a head-for-the-hills survivalism that speaks nicely to the enduring American fascination with ingenuity and self-reliance. And as it has for decades, the prospect of apocalypse now also offers the promise of escape to millions of people alienated from a civilization of intimidating global corporations, boundless personal gratification and unnerving manipulations of nature, like cloning...