Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iowa and making small talk in New Hampshire, if he does not occasionally find it odd to be spending two years and up to $50 million in quest of a harrowing job that pays $200,000 a year, then maybe, just maybe, we have finally found the character flaw that does indeed make him unfit to be President...
...flaw in Deng's retirement plan was that he bet on the wrong man. His handpicked successor, Hu Yaobang, 72, a keen reformer, was dismissed as party leader in January for failing to control student demonstrators who were demanding freedom and democracy...
Another structural flaw that tends to undermine competitiveness is the U.S. Government's heavy borrowing. Though Congress has finally put the federal deficit on a downward path, from a record $221 billion in fiscal 1986 to an estimated $157 billion this year, the shortfall is still large enough to keep U.S. interest rates high in comparison with those of other industrial countries. The steep cost of loans, in turn, tends to discourage corporations from borrowing to make long-term improvements in plants and equipment...
...Bork was done in by a tragic flaw, his behavior and that of his supporters since the floodgates opened against him has shown it to be the stuff of low tragedy, not high. First, the president tried to tie in a vote for Bork with a vote to get tough on crime, abandoning all pretense that the judge was a moderate. Then after the Judiciary Commitee voted not to recommend his nomination to the full Senate, Bork vowed to fight on, to bring his nomination onto the Senate floor to force a vote of the full Senate...
...weaknesses are subtle, nearly hidden. Yet they are almost always there. And on game-day, a single weakness, a single flaw picked up by some assistant coach during his hours of game-film watching, can mean the difference between victory and defeat...