Word: lacks
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...Secretary of the Interior go to Alaska soon after the spill to see the scope of the disaster with his own eyes? Three weeks before the spill, an Environmental Protection Agency report criticized oil companies' "careless management of chemical and oil wastes on Alaska's North Slope." The lack of a coherent plan to deal with such crises has given new meaning to the phrase, "from sea to shining...
...lack of any sort of guiding principle. Any sort of desire for deep change. It is symbolized by the message of the Senior Class T-shirt--our "Going for the Gold" means nothing more than going after the American Express gold card...
Black students also lack role models because of a longstanding dearth of minority faculty members. Black student protestors in 1969 demanded more Black faculty members, and students protested the same problem as recently as yesterday. The problem is a national one, in part because a disproportionately small number of Black students enter Ph.D. programs...
Bailey questioned the lack of pre-education tutors in the houses, especially because there are pre-med, pre-law, and pre-business tutors. "You're not going to get that faculty if you're not promoting it from the student body right here," she said...
Many attribute the lack of Black junior faculty members to search committee members' failure to look beyond traditionally white schools for young academics. These critics say that white professors ask colleagues at other schools, who are generally white also, for recommendations, and do not look elsewhere. The problem of minority hiring is self-perpetuating...