Word: lacking
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...council lost a progressive voice in Triantafillou, but her challengers were hardly right-wing. The lack of excitement or initiative for change was most poignantly illustrated by the fact that the voting was done by less than half of the city's registered voters. Few students showed up at the polling booths even for one of their own, at least if you take it from the lack of support for MIT student Erik Snowberg's candidacy. Snowberg finished 14th in the pool of 24 candidates, a sign that students still have little interest in Cambridge politics. However, Snowberg's campaign...
...mayor system, the manager is more powerful than the council. He writes regulations and controls public works, public safety and city financing. Healy has successfully navigated the turbulent waters of city politics for 18 years, but he has fallen out of favor with several city councillors because of his lack of action to secure low-cost housing for city residents. Triantafillou was one of his most outspoken critics, but newcomer Braude is also in favor of putting more power in the hands of the council and so the election is not likely to influence the factions...
...African Americans who are very concerned about the lack of African-American role models today...
...Force has been grumbling about a lack of funds. So why hasn't it been keeping a closer eye on its petty cash? Embarrassing case in point: an audit of the publicly funded renovations to the Air Force Academy's Carlton House, home of the academy's head, LIEUT. GENERAL TAD OELSTROM...
...does today. Having sex is too much fun for us to stop, but religious convictions aside, it will be more for recreation than procreation. Many human beings, especially those who are rich, vain and ambitious, will be using test tubes--not just to get around infertility and the lack of suitable partners, but to clone themselves and tinker with their genes...