Word: flawed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should attend an inter-agency conference sponsored by Treasury. Everyone writes memos and formulates operative alternatives, but most of the time elected officials hear only what they want to hear, while the bright young innovators shape up or ship out. Fromson's career peaked when he discovered a major flaw in some important Social Security legislation. The party leadership wanted the bill passed anyway, however, so the revelation was quashed, Fromson ostracized, and a literary career launched...
...THERE IS ANY FLAW in Peter Sellars's recasting of Orlando it is his tendency towards cryptic, coyly symbolic staging. Why, for instance, is there so much rolling around? Why does Zoroastro mug and wave at the audience incessantly? And why are all those cardboard boxes littering the stage in the last act? No doubt each of these elements has its place in Sellars's masterplan, but too often, his is an aggressively private vision...
...final flaw is that Reagan tends to assume his advisers will agree on most major issues; when they differ seriously, the White House machinery simply seizes up. Stockman last summer demanded deep cuts in defense spending and Weinberger resisted any reductions at all. Reagan, who basically thought the dispute was a technical question rather than a matter of principle, let things drift for six weeks in the hope that Meese could get the two to agree on a figure. Deaver finally intervened to get both to present their arguments directly to Reagan, and the President decided in favor of minimal...
...have been reports that Nancy Reagan, chief of staff James A. Baker and his deputy Michael K. Deaver have urged the President to fire Allen for exercising bad judgment, regardless of the question of law violation. One must remember that Allen is not the only aide guilty of this flaw. Budget Director David Stockman showed far worse judgment than Allen when he made a mockery of Reagan's economic program with his damaging comments to the Atlantic Monthly. Likewise, Secretary of State Alexander Haig has often embarrassed the president with his antics, the most recent being his statements...
THOUGH NO FOE of affirmative action, I find it odd that, in their effort to overcome one societal flaw, the majority overlooks another...