Word: lacking
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...spindly, like undernourished Europeans after the war; they might be denizens of pestilential Vienna in the 1949 thriller The Third Man. Some of the characters are distinctly European, like Bobolinsky and the theatrical ladies. But even Coraline and the Cat, and certainly Other Mother in her final, spidery metamorphosis, lack the soft lines and winning personalities found in most U.S. animation. Indeed, the girl's "real" environment and her dream-nightmare one are equally remote from the reassuring landscapes in standard American cartoon features. That chilly visual vocabulary, along with a narrative that too often detours into ingenious irrelevancies, makes...
...Obama administration wants to spend up to $100 billion on efforts to help homeowners, especially those facing foreclosure. But one of the leading ideas on how to do that - rewriting home loans to make mortgages affordable to struggling borrowers - is based on a startling lack of data about what works, and early evidence suggests that many lenders aren't going to make substantial changes without serious strong-arming...
...week before the 100th anniversary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, students from across the University gathered to re-charter the Harvard chapter of the historic organization last night. In front of nearly 75 attendees, HLS student James A. Nortey addressed the lack of social justice and civil rights initiatives on campus. “This is Harvard University. How can there not be an NAACP?” Nortey asked. The organization’s current on-campus absence may be part of a larger statewide trend. Once known for bitter anti-discrimination battles...
...project in South Africa, and the two continued to discuss how to fund research for a vaccine on a larger, more innovative scale. An MIT graduate who founded InterSystems Corporation—a Cambridge-based software company—Ragon said the donation was designed to combat the lack of collaboration in research. “What’s really been lacking in biomedical research in general and HIV specifically is a lack of an interdisciplinary approach,” Ragon said. “Everything is done in small isolated labs that don’t communicate...
...worst-off of all the beleaguered chipmakers are the six major DRAM manufacturers in Taiwan, which lost a combined $3.5 billion in 2008, according to the Taiwan government. Taiwan's firms are in especially rough shape because they lack the scale, financial resources and technical prowess of their larger Korean and American rivals. The companies' woes are pushing the Taiwan government toward a bailout of the industry. "We have the intention and the resolve to help the DRAM companies through difficult times," Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou reportedly told electronics industry executives in early January. Aid is crucial, policymakers believe...