Word: lacking
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...both his friends and foes talked of lack of leadership...
Advocates of keeping the statute had argued that most crimes had been detected or dealt with, and that future convictions of Nazi killers would become increasingly difficult because of faulty memories, witnesses' deaths, and lack of evidence. Of the 85,802 people investigated in connection with war crimes since 1945, only 6,440 have been convicted, and only 166 received the maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Opponents of the present law were afraid that some of the several thousand Nazi criminals in hiding abroad might escape justice. There has been international pressure on the Bundestag, particularly from Jews around...
America's tenth largest industrial company is like an old gas guzzler hurtling along the dangerous edge of a cliff, and in this difficult year the road is trickier than usual. Chrysler Corp., long plagued by uncompetitive products and a lack of cash, is expected to follow its first quarter $53.8 million loss with a second quarter deficit that could come close to $200 million. The company may end the year with a loss of more than $400 million, double last year's $204.6 million deficit. Chairman John Riccardo has made a dozen trips to Washington since...
...Phoenix rationale is straightforward. Marriage is a vocation. "You cannot become a plumber or an electrician in two weeks," remarks the priest who heads the diocesan tribunal. Bishop Rausch believes that lack of mature preparation is the chief cause of trouble. "We need to move our young people beyond romance or physical attraction to the sound foundations of love." It will take hard work, he adds, for Catholics to resist the trend to treat marriage and divorce casually...
Such public pique is very rare among Supreme Court Justices. The court is an intensely private place that prizes its secrecy. Differences between the Justices more often show up only in their judicial opinions-and in this court's overall lack of coherence...