Word: unmet
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...take credit for this year, but many would argue that some of its most important goals--the capture of Osama bin Laden, the removal of Saddam Hussein, progress in halting the war between the Israelis and the Palestinians, the revival of a sick economy and investor confidence--remain unmet. Nancy Gibbs incisively profiles their partnership, while James Carney looks at what made Cheney, a two-time dropout from Yale, the second most powerful man in America...
...moral issues posed by the use of such weapons by what the editors characterize as “the only modern, democratic nation in the Middle East,” a nuclear exchange in such a delicate region cannot possibly be a helpful step—neither is a unmet nuclear provocation, but we must remember that there are many eager for a casus belli against Jews half as convincing as that they employed nuclear weapons against Muslims and Arabs...
...chance is participation in a Phase I study unlikely to help them. "The cancer patients I work with are an ignored species," says Duke University researcher Dr. Johannes Vieweg. "Nobody wants to deal with them because there's so little that can be done. We try to address their unmet needs...
...student groups. Certainly there is nothing wrong with wanting to play Scrabble or exhibit your love of New Jersey. But board games and state pride do not directly contribute to the educational goals of the University. Nor do they better Harvard as a place of learning or address an unmet need in our city. Therefore, they should not receive formal funding from Harvard. These interests should be pursued on students’ own time and at their own expense...
...Private business groups have a large and unmet role, not only in philanthropy, but to provide drugs at a low cost, to transfer technology, to sponsor universities and to engage in the cooperation they’re used to in the U.S.,” he said...