Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Former Texas Governor John Connally charged that the coming SALT ΙΙ treaty will do nothing "but legitimize and condone the Soviets' overtaking the United States in strategic arms between now and 1985." Onetime CIA Director George Bush complained that even the Chinese Communists are concerned about "the lack of U.S. resolution on Iran." Asserted Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker: "There is a growing view that America is a patsy and we never retaliate. We do more with someone who shoots a cop than someone who assassinates an ambassador." None of these challengers, of course, bears any responsibility...
...second road to glory-and mediocrity-is to join the rank of management. This is typically accomplished by building a small empire. For lack of a better index, one's importance, and thus one's grade, is ultimately determined by the number of employees supervised, the number of publications issued, the number of projects undertaken. This of course leads to the creation of unnecessary work...
Michelle's plea is that only the lack of a preacher made her relationship with Lee any different from that of any married couple. She produced a sheaf of love letters in which the actor claimed he lusted after her, saying that her coming to him on location was his "bucket of gold at the end of the rainbow." Lee pooh-poohed the missives as the kind of thing fellas tend to write. If measuring love was like a fuel gauge, he said gallantly, his feelings for Michelle never got above "half a tank...
...Bazargan government was forced to negotiate Kraus' release with the Komiteh. To mask their own lack of control of events in Tehran, Bazargan aides blandly announced that Kraus had been held legitimately, on suspicion that he had killed some Iranians during the embassy assault. It was well established, however, that he had never even fired a shot...
Morrison said yesterday he thinks 50 people are interested in joining a gymnastics club. "Some are fairly good gymnasts who lack polish but are potentially good competitors," he said...