Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plane was rejected by a bureaucrat labeled a "pinhead" by an industry journal. What the U.S. chose to display instead was the B-1B bomber, a dark and menacing $285 million war machine. The B-1B, designed to travel to its target through hostile combat environments, demonstrated only one flaw: its engines refused to start when the aircraft was scheduled to leave Le Bourget. A special power unit had to be flown from West Germany to get the bomber going...
Perhaps the most glaring flaw in your story is the reference to former Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan's trial as evidence of moral decay in high places. The result of the Donovan trial, wherein he was acquitted, only underscores your total lack of sensitivity. You treated him as if he were guilty while the jury was deliberating on that very issue...
...Ridgemont High) across a Manhattan dinner table. "David," Linson recalls saying, "now that you have just won the Pulitzer for Glengarry Glen Ross, don't you think the right career move would be to do a remake of a TV series?" Mamet was faced with correcting a familiar flaw of biographical drama: "That something is true does not make it interesting. There wasn't any real story. Ness and Capone never met. Capone went to jail for income tax evasion, which is not a very dramatic climax. So I made up a story about two of the good guys: Ness...
Eventually, though, a recurring flaw in Post's codes was picked up by a bank's computer. Charged with fraud, Post skipped out on $25,000 bail in Manhattan. He is still at large...
Jacobs' greatest flaw, however, is his excessive faith in international law. His hopeful epilogue that the future will see greater realization of the potential inherent in extant international law is more sanguine than the balance of the book warrants...