Word: lacking
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...have a lot of guys who maybe didn’t start a lot of games last year...but there’s really not as much of a lack of experience as it may appear,” senior Ryan Burkhead says. “There’s a lot of experience there, these guys have been biding their time...
...With such breakout performances, the 2008 secondary proved that it had no lack of talent. But this year’s squad has something extra—experience, both on the field and with each other...
...lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance. Maybe what has kept our generation so enmeshed in technology is the fact that most of us lack actual lives. All that time that we spend tweeting our thoughts and emotions to our next of kin, we could be writing the great American novel, starting a business, or just living. Maybe on the not-so-distant morning when I wake up and realize I have don’t have a clue...
...attention that other cities receive in terms of media coverage, noting, “Obviously we would love to have national coverage, but the truth of the matter is Boston... is not going to be high on the list of priorities.” In spite of the lack of high-profile media attention, a discernible Bostonian aesthetic is emerging over time. “Here in Boston, people will have fun with trends and playful things, but [the trends] don’t have staying power,” Calderin says. “Here, we?...
Despite the terms at their disposal, police departments often prefer to dub an individual a person of interest because it has a measure of political correctness that technical terms lack, according to Dr. Rande Matteson, an ex-officer and professor of criminal justice at Florida's Saint Leo University. Matteson says the term is "less damaging" than dubbing someone a suspect, particularly if the police prove to be wrong in their identification. Cynthia Hujar Orr, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, says authorities may also use the term as a way to curry cooperation, on the assumption...