Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said that the flaw was discovered last Wednesday when the first upperclass ID cards were made. The problem came to light when a student tried to buy food at Lehman Hall and his card failed to make an imprint on the charge slip. Similar situations were reported by a number of other students that day, Granfield said...
Then the Pentagon confirmed that last month, for the second time since April, a new SS-18, the mainstay of the Soviet strategic forces, exploded after a test launching, apparently because of a problem in the rocket's fuel system. No one suggested there was a major flaw in the SS-18 program. Nonetheless, U.S. observers emphasized the strategic importance of the missile to the Soviets, citing what former U.S. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft called its silo-busting capabilities...
Press coverage has generally followed a tone set by the ruling Politburo, which blamed criminal negligence by local and national officials, not any design flaw in the reactor, for the explosion...
Customs officials will check the bags at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, where almost all diplomatic mail arrives as air freight. Eventually, provisions will be made to inspect pouches arriving by sea, train or automobile from third countries. The metal detectors, however, have one major flaw: they cannot detect whether any plastic explosives are packed in the diplomatic pouches...
...frequent traveler in the First and Third worlds, Theroux has undoubtedly seen excesses and disasters that have stimulated his imagination. His book's one flaw is that it is too observant. Descriptions and exotic details help build a brave new fictional world, but too many gadgets and repetitions can obstruct characterization. Perhaps that is what the author intended; he usually keeps a cool emotional distance from his characters. Yet his ambitious conception has the power to raise readers' temperatures, by taking them back to the future and the chance for a new beginning...