Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grew up in Cambridge, I went to High School in Cambridge. It gave me a real appreciation for the kids that go there," Harshbarger said, adding that some other candidates lack the necessary experience of Cambridge life...
...seniors Megan L. Peimer '97 and Ezra W. Reese '97 established an "alternative" senior gift fund to protest the lack of tenured women on the faculty. Peimer and Reese asked seniors to withhold their donations from the University and to store them in a private escrow account instead until Harvard hired more women to tenured spots. The fund raised several thousand dollars overall...
...settlers to expand their settlements. Barak knows he?ll have to dismantle some of the settlements as part of the final agreement, but believes a piecemeal Israeli withdrawal ahead of such an agreement is even riskier than confronting the settlers with a done deal. But his Palestinian counterparts lack the patience for such nuance. "After the last few years? experience, the Palestinians no longer trust goodwill and promises," says Beyer. "They trust only what they hold in their hands" -- land, and signed agreements to transfer more land...
...lack of media coverage of the Sri Lankan conflict is both inhumane and journalistically unsound. When the war isn't entirely ignored, the very occasional coverage fails to represent the history behind the conflict. The ethnic conflict in Kosovo receives plenty of well-deserved coverage. Where is the coverage of Sri Lanka...
...surprisingly, my first attempt was a relative failure: The arm that I lifted with so much promise would drop quickly back to my side, the victim of what appeared to be an occupied taxi coming near. As the cab whizzed by, I saw that it was indeed empty, my lack of confidence punishable with a fine of a few minutes standing unnecessarily in the smothering D.C. heat...