Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Castro's failure to provide land for Cuban smallholders, despite promises made during the revolution, may be a serious flaw in his land reform plans, according to the director of Harvard's Atkins Garden and Research Laboratory in Soledad, Cubs...
...economic planner. Thanks to bribes, the lace was sold on the shelves of even the government stores, with the profits going into the pockets of the ring. Last year's illegal take: 3,200,000 rubles ($3,550,000). The ring's undoing was a typical capitalistic flaw: conspicuous consumption in the form of fancy cars and lavish dachas that finally alerted the cops...
...teams at Harvard, however, I knew that steady, week-in and week-out performances were rare. Therefore, I didn't set my sights too high; I just kept reminding the team to concentrate on each play and each game as it came, and to take pride in playing good, flaw-less football...
Auctions: Theory & Practice. In theory, auctioning a work is the most accurate way to put a price on the priceless; in practice, its major visible flaw is "auction fever," in which rich amateurs get carried away and bid against one another to force prices up from 25% to 60% more than prudence dictates. But-also in practice-there is more to many an auction than the eye can see, mostly stemming from the fact that art dealers often comprise about three-fourths of the bidders...
...hand is the film's only defect. One wonders if it is really essential to spend so much footage on the Transylvanian folk festival when what we really want to know is how things stand in Dracula's castle above the town. But this is at most a minor flaw in a generally excellent production. Dracula's Daughter, in short, makes fine entertainment, and tomorrow night's WNAC presentation - The Mad Ghoul-promises to be equally rewarding...