Word: missteps
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That scheme was rejected by her publishers, and Paradise was released to the public with a mournful, creakily "mystical coda that is easily the least effective passage of the book. Even without that concluding misstep, though, the impact of the first chapter within the circular framework Morrison attempts is severely diluted by two factors...
First, though, Lipinski had to survive the short program, a 2-min. 40-sec. contest in which one misstep, one deviation from the eight required elements can mean instant elimination. Nicole Bobek, 20, was out in under a minute: she hit the ice during her first triple Lutz and never recovered, taking with her the talk of a red-white-and-blue sweep. The world offered up its best--Russian siren Maria Butyrskaya, China's comeback kid Chen Lu and French wonder woman Surya Bonaly--but one competitor, Elena Sokolova, voiced what everyone knew: "It's really between Tara...
Korea's Reverse Alchemy Is South Korea, on the brink of recovery, about to make a major misstep? Playing the international gold game...
...blanket immunity, to recount how they were badgered into laundering campaign money when the Vice President visited their temple. More ominous are new revelations about the dialing-for-dollars effort that Gore mounted from his White House office in 1995 and 1996, which may turn out to be the misstep that lands the entire mess in the hands of an independent counsel. This would be the fifth to find work investigating various transgressions alleged against top Clinton Administration officials. The Justice Department last week began a formal, 30-day preliminary look to determine whether an outside prosecutor is warranted, threatening...
...Washington does not give the People's Republic the benefit of the doubt. Distrust of Beijing has brought together an anti-China odd coupling of human-rights advocates, religious fundamentalists and free traders who claim China seeks to dominate all Asia. These doubters are ready to pounce on any misstep as an excuse for a policy of containment intended to force the communist leadership from power. Eager for China's markets, Clinton and his European allies had given China plenty of latitude, and it would be naive for Hong Kong to count too heavily on muscular intervention on its behalf...