Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many students, both first-year and upperclass, said there was a problem with house diversity. "I think [the statistics] show a great lack of diversity," said Teddy Moscoso '93, a Thayer Hall resident. "It really affects the way you think about the houses. You form biases about the person from the houses...
...exclusively to law- enforcement agencies via coded satellite signals. Its mission: to provide police with the latest law-enforcement techniques and training, along with the most up-to-date crime news from around the country. Explains network President Billy Prince, a former Dallas police chief: "There's a terrible lack of knowledge among police. Information is changing so fast that it's impossible to keep up by sending men to a boring seminar. We offer cost-effective bits and pieces...
Even the strategy document issued by William Bennett, the director of national drug policy, concedes that interdiction is mainly a symbolic effort. Its lack of results underscores the need to intercept cocaine in other places. Specifically, the document recommends a stronger effort to cut cocaine off at both ends of the pipeline: the source of the abundant supply as well as the seemingly insatiable demand...
...give credit where credit is due, Williams does have the ability to write a seemingly infinite number of similarly insipid bubble-gum pop tunes about unrequited love. Clever listeners will note that every one of the five Jerry Williams songs on Journeyman covers this topic, each with an equal lack of depth. And if these songs do not sound particularly fresh, that may be because four of the five were written at various times between 1985 and 1988, during the August and Behind the Sun recording sessions...
...newest album with this wonderful update of E. McDaniel's 30-year-old blues tune. Clapton's vocals do sound a little weak, and the song was not mixed with any particular technical insight. But "Before You Accuse Me" has lots of raw energy, and the subdued vocals and lack of mixing actually lend the track a feeling of authenticity...