Word: flaws
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Oddly enough, it is this very flaw that enhances the credibility of Red Storm Rising. World War III, by most postulates, is not likely to involve a grand Tolstoyan sweep of personal valor. Arsenals and tactics might indeed be set in motion by the frailties of flesh-and-blood players, but once launched the lethal machines would take on a life of their own--almost like characters in a novel. That possibility, vividly rendered, is what gives Clancy's book such a chilling ring of truth...
...real logical flaw in Bok's arguments is that he can not distinguish between divestment as an economically-motivated act or as a morally-motivated one. It is time that the University stop viewing Harvard's divestment as an economic issue and instead come to see it for what it could be--a significant political and moral step on the way to a larger national solution...
INSTANCES LIKE THESE are rare, but not as rare as some people would like to think. Ironically, my roommate had sought to follow the advice of crime prevention officers by taking steps to protect herself. But because of one major flaw in the otherwise beneficial escort service, she was verbally assaulted and ran a risk of being sexually assaulted...
Grounded by a demoralizing series of failures, the U.S. space program finally got a bit of good news last week. The Air Force announced that a mechanical glitch, rather than a major design flaw, caused its Titan 34D rocket to explode just 700 ft. above its launching pad at California's Vandenberg Air Base last April 18. Loose insulation, the result of shoddy quality control, was blamed for permitting a fatal burn-through. The Air Force predicted that the Titan, capable of lifting up to 35,000-lb. payloads, would be ready to fly again by early next year...
...court undistinguished by the eloquence of its opinions. In one dissent he borrowed from Gilbert and Sullivan to twit his colleagues for arrogating too much power to the federal courts: "The law is the true embodiment/ Of everything that's excellent/ It has no kind of fault or flaw/ And I, my Lords, embody...