Word: lacking
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...like turnaround last year to make the title game of the ECAC Championship tournament that a certain passion to win each and every game is missing. Perhaps the belief that the team can rely on (and will pull out) a miraculous late-season turnaround is the explanation for the lack of desire needed for winning games...
...smelly Science Center fountain,” stop the “annoying bells” from ringing, and install swingsets in the Yard. Although many undergraduates might not object to these changes, as campaign promises they are meaningless, given the UC’s lack of say in such matters. How can the UC expect to be taken seriously if its ranks are determined by these arbitrary criteria...
...it’s there, and even what they lack in skills—they’re football players, not Jeremy Lin—they make up for in pure, raw athletic power...
...Political consultant Panagiotis Papachatzis says that this week's riots will further weaken Prime Minister Karamanlis. "Citizens feel there is a lack of decisive action by the government against all forms of violence - both police-induced and anarchist," says Papachatzis. "The social discontent of the past few days has placed itself [ahead] of the financial crisis...
...This futurist lived long enough to serenely contemplate his own future, or lack of it. "It would be nice to look forward to going to a Great Sci-Fi Convention in the Sky when I expire," he wrote. "I am vaguely contemplating opting for a cryogenic comeback but in case I don't become a human people-cicle, I, like Isaac Asimov and other thinkers I admire, don't expect to wake up in some spirit realm of an afterlife. I've been a secular humanist since I was 15, long before the term was invented, and nothing since...