Word: lacking
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...know what's not happening here because of the lack of funding," O'Dair says. "I would support a student activities fee, but the students feel that such funding should be paid for out of their tuition...
Whoever the winner was, in the end the loser was the American voter. The debate was marked by a lack of tough questioning and vague side-stepping answers from the candidates. When Texas Gov. George W. Bush said he wanted to "strengthen the military to make sure that the world is peaceful," even the moderators were visibly frustrated. It all led to an unproductive evening...
Despite its lack of substance, at least the debate afforded some moments of levity. The funniest line went to McCain who said that if Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan was to die while he was in office McCain would "do like they did in the movie 'Weekend at Bernie's': I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him, and keep him as long as we could." It's a good thing at least one of the Republican candidates has his finger on the pulse of the American people...
Judas followed him, for lack of anywhere else to go. He lay down just inside Hamer's door with the chill spring air all down his legs, but he slept no more than a few brief spasms of sweet shallow dreaming and a few high yips at the ends of nightmares...
...mental disability, kids often have thin grounds on which to base a defense against school punishment. That's because the U.S. Supreme Court has eroded student protections granted in the 1960s. In 1995 Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a caustic decision allowing drug testing of students. "Minors," he said, "lack some of the most fundamental rights of self-determination--including even the right of liberty in its narrow sense, i.e., the right to come and go at will." The ruling was widely seen to give administrators carte blanche in punishing students, though schools still must follow some weak due-process guidelines...