Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What services did not close down for lack of funds were wrecked by Macias' often inexplicable decisions. Malabo's lone-electric generating plant has been out of commission since it blew up two years ago after Macias decided that it should be operated without lubricating...
Totally exempt from discipline are what Frank Greenberg, past president of the Chicago Bar Association, calls "the gray mice": judges who "lack the scholarship, the temperament, the learning" and are "simply in the wrong occupation." Says Greenberg, a member of the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board: "There is not a damn thing the discipline system can do about them...
Jaffe, it seems, hoped depth of character would make up for lack of direction and action in the plot lines. But each attempt at psychological depth, at developing a character or portraying a crucial moment comes off like so much slop thrown at these cardboard figures to keep the reader interested. Jumping from one woman to another and updating us on their lives requires a lot of fast stepping. Jaffe doesn't turn in much of a performance, however. If you want to see the finale, you have to wade through 300 pages of tedium. Expect to be disappointed. There...
...Debate Council: polemics for the off-spring of exasperated mothers who continually moaned at your arguments, "You'll make a great lawyer someday." The council has won numerous tournaments and even national championships, but lack of funds prevents the Harvard team from admitting any but the dedicated few who survive the crushing fall comp...
Southern said these professors refused tenure for a number of reasons, including the department's lack of a graduate program, the problems of finding jobs for wives in Cambridge, and Harvard's inability to better some of their current salaries...