Word: short
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately they fell one goal short, losing a 2-1 heartbreaker to the highly touted Huskies...
...poor performance of Harvard's real estate investments, which fell short of their target by double digits, was largely a result of setting goals too high, Meyer said...
Meyer blamed the University's money managers outside HMC for much of the University's failure to meet its overall benchmarks. In particular, investments in emerging markets fared even worse, falling 17 points short of their benchmark...
...although in my innocent youth I loved the film "Short Circuit," I became disillusioned when I realized that the white actor portraying the Indian immigrant inventor was acting like a caricature, not a person...
Even admirable attempts to address the stereotypes fall short--if only because a lot of people don't recognize satire. Apu on The Simpsons is a ludicrously drawn character, a heavily accented and mustachioed man who runs a Kwik-E Mart and offers guru-like advice to his befuddled friend Homer (when he is not making his own gauche mistakes). I don't think most Americans even recognize that The Simpsons uses Apu to mock American conceptions of South-Asian Americans...