Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there probably would have been no trial had the issue simply been a matter of lack of foresight. These were politicians, after all, not medical experts. However, Fabius, Herv? and Dufoix are accused of delaying the implementation of mandatory blood screening, even though government scientists had already vetted a test devised by Abbot, an American company. Delaying the final approval of that test was seen as a way to give a French company, Diagnostics-Pasteur, a crucial head start for its own product in what was expected to become a lucrative market. The fact that Fabius's health adviser...
...story of Paul's guilt over his father's murder (a murder he witnessed) contains every cliche imaginable, and could have been ripped wholesale from a Z-grade movie-of-the-week. The cheap psychology is necessary to the comedy, but it gets bogged down in its own lack of depth. Paul's cathartic moments feel as if they were intended to be touching, but, weepy and overwrought, they succeed onlyin being stupid...
...know if they were expressing doubt about whether I needed to go to the hospital, but the real problem for me was the lack of support for a decision I had already made," she wrote...
...Faculty members who have questioned whether Douglas' rights have been violated believe the lack of counsel could have affected the outcome of Douglas's criminal case, Paul said...
...Scali said that when the state legislature repealed a similar regulation--known as the "cordials law"--about five years ago, only a handful of local businesses expressed an interest in gaining the right to serve alcoholic beverages before noon on Sunday. That lack of interest encouraged the Commission not to repeal the restriction...