Word: flawed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while the engine is running and slams the door. The transmission pops into reverse, and the car lurches backward. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week made an "initial determination" that some such sequence has been happening often enough to Ford Motor Co. vehicles to suggest a flaw in their automatic-transmission design. It was a step toward ordering the biggest recall in history, involving some 16 million Ford cars and trucks built between...
...based Computer Fraud & Security Bulletin sponsored a "Think Like a Thief contest, encouraging readers to compete for a ?100 ($215) prize by inventing plans for a computer-related fraud. But now there are international repercussions. In his winning entry, published in the Bulletin, Leslie Goldberg pinpointed an apparently fatal flaw in a new security technique recently proposed by major British banks and being considered by their foreign counterparts...
Because of a flaw in the computer program that assigned freshmen to Houses, sophomore men and women next year will enter Currier House at a 2.8:1 ratio and Mather House at 2.6:1 ratio--both over the 2.5:1 ceiling CHUL had established...
...simple story into an honest and captivating film. But even her sensitive portrait of a person who has the courage to buck convention cannot completely transcend a simplistic script. Sybylla defies the limitations of Victorian society by ultimately choosing to pursue a career as an author; the film's flaw is not this decision, but the manner in which Sybylla reaches...
...INABILITY of the show to measure up to the quality of the acting highlights Charlie Brown's greatest flaw. As a musical, it's very difficult to take seriously. It powder puffs its way across the stage, and nothing more. The children in the audience have a great time, but the cynical undergraduate theatergoer may ask why the South House Drama Society selected Charlie Brown...