Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Basic Flaw. Che's death illustrates how unsuccessful the attempt has been. In the eight years since Castro came to power, Cuba has spent $400 million on its "wars of liberation," trained 5,000 young Latin American guerrillas and launched more than 15 different at tempts at revolution in twelve Latin American countries. All of them have failed, though small groups still operate in Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and Bolivia. Even in these countries, guerrilla bands have been reduced to a fraction of their original strength, and are at best fighting only defensive actions...
...flaw in Che's philosophy of revolution is revealed in his book Guerrilla Warfare, which sets down a step-by-step plan for organizing peasants for a Cuban-style revolution. What Che ignored was the fact that Castro did not really create a peasant revolution in Cuba. Though the peasants supported and sustained his forces during the early fighting in the Sierra Maestra, the real turning point came when Cuba's urban middle class, which actually made up the bulk of Castro's army, suddenly began deserting Dictator Fulgencio Batista and sent the jittery strongman fleeing into...
Medicare, Part A, has one major flaw: it provides no requirement or incentive for hospitals to cut costs. It reimburses the cost as billed, high or low. In major cities, a day in one of the better hospitals costs $80 to $90, counting not only the semiprivate-room charge, food, treatment, drugs, nursing care and laundry but all the innumerable X rays and laboratory tests now inseparable from optimal care. One possibility: allow HEW to make a long-term contract with a hospital to treat patients at a flat rate; if the hospital can cut costs without trimming services...
...experience of thousands," wrote one. Said another: "Reality-deep, significant reality-is the characteristic of this book." Nothing that deeply touched Charlotte -the terrible boarding school where her sisters died, her woes as a governess, the tests of love-is absent from Jane Eyre. If Charlotte's flaw was excessive romanticism, her strength was the ardor with which she recorded her bitter experiences...
...Birds, the Bees and the Italians. Pietro Germi's boisterous travelogue through the bedrooms of a small Italian city was originally called simply Signore e Signori; its hoked-up English title is about its only flaw...