Word: lacking
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...increasingly bellicose threats from North Korea and Iran, the Pentagon has continued to lower its recruiting standards to meet the ever-increasing demand for U.S. troops. Even so, the agency recently found that 75% of Americans ages 17 to 24 are ineligible to enlist - largely because of either a lack of education, a criminal record, poor fitness or all of the above. In the wake of the Pentagon's findings, nearly 100 retired and active-duty military commanders have launched "Mission: Readiness," a report on why America's youth needs to shape up if they want to ship...
...efforts so far is a Nobel Prize for Potential and - no small thing - the wisdom to have refrained from doing anything so wildly stupid as invading Iraq. The President has been willing to use military force - the Predator drones that have decimated al-Qaeda's leadership testify to his lack of squeamishness - but this Administration is supposed to be about the efficacy of using subtler expressions of U.S. power. That doesn't happen overnight, but for Obama's policies to be considered a success, it has to happen sooner or later, in a way that can be explained...
...redesigned 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, won't appear until next spring. Facing a dearth of new products, Chrysler hands blame the company's previous owner, Cerberus Capital Management LLC, for slashing the product development budget in a failed bid to reach profitability. But it's more than just a lack of new vehicles plaguing the automaker; it's also the vehicles it has in hand. "Chrysler continues to struggle," Consumer Reports said earlier this month. "More than one third of Chrysler products are much worse than average," the magazine's editors noted...
Tragic Flaw: Lack of personality...
Plot Intrigue: Distracted by the lack of inflection in Nate's voice...