Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think it's a very important one and I think it has been a long time coming. When you have a system that can have at least $100 billion that is not being collected from people who legitimately owe it-there's a flaw. [Tax reform] is a part of the whole economic problem that faces us. I think we've made a good start and this is a case now of going further with it. One thing, above all, I won't stand still for anything under the guise of reform that is just another...
...costliest flaw in the system has been the absence of incentives. Industrial workers are virtually guaranteed employment for life. More than that, rewarding merit is considered dangerously unsocialist. When the government allocated money for merit bonuses five years ago, most managers chose to hand out across the-board wage hikes to hard worker and laggard alike...
...only if one expects realism. The Boston Ballet has difficulty suspending belief in this fictional world for most of the first act. Rhythmically, the village scene is halting and awkward, reminding us that this is not reality. Even the company's admirable technique does not hide this major flaw...
...other scientists have been quick to point out a key flaw. The solar system right now is passing through the central plane of the Milky Way and quickly approaching the dust clouds. Thus we should now be experiencing the first stages of the bombardment. But since we have yet to be blown into the stratosphere with the rest of the planet, researchers say they have grown somewhat skeptical...
...only real flaw with this album is that some of the songs are a bit narrow and unformed. The horror of "Elaine's Song" or the obsessive depression of "Choukoutien" would be more effective if the songs were filled out. Of course, this complaint could just be a backhand way of saying I like their music so much that I wish there were more...