Word: flaw
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...surgeon's touch with the drop volley and the ability to cut off return angles with quick rushes to the net. Her serve has diminished to a mortal 97 m.p.h. Mortal, that is, when compared with her serve of five years ago. But what's a flaw or two when the achievement itself can never be erased by the passage of time...
Indeed, if there was one remediable flaw holding the team back, it was a lack of confidence...
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...
...there has been a consistent criticism of Mandela over the years, it is that he is too willing to see the good in people. If this is a flaw, it is one he accepts because it grows out of his great strength, his generosity of heart toward his enemies. He defends himself by noting that thinking too well of people sometimes makes them behave better than they otherwise would. He believes in the essential goodness of the human heart, even though he has spent a lifetime suffering the wounds of heartless authorities...
...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...