Word: unmetered
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...meet with them regularly from now on. But no amount of cajoling from the White House will keep Gephardt from laying more groundwork for a presidential run. Just days before the AFL-CIO conference, he plans to cross the border into Mexico to highlight, as an aide says, "the unmet promise of NAFTA," the 1993 trade agreement that Gore publicly backed and the unions, joined by Gephardt, ardently opposed. Gephardt has also hired a new deputy chief of staff, David Plouffe, who has extensive campaign experience in Iowa, site of crucial early presidential caucuses three years from now. And Gephardt...
Kaufman said that there was an unmet demand for this kind of service...
...medical system, which claims a backlog of $870 million in unmet needs for equipment and $800 million in deferred maintenance and repairs, will lay off 5,000 to 10,000 employees next year, and not all of them will be bureaucrats. As it is, the care-giving staff is stretched so thin on some wards that quadriplegics complain of spending days in bed for lack of anyone to help them up. Gerald Barba, 39, a peacetime Navy veteran who broke his neck in a swimming accident, praises the dedication of the staff at the VA Hospital in the Bronx...
...situation this fall was especially bad. The activation of student phone lines fell behind schedule, with glib promises of speedy activation simply going unmet. All of this was on top of the normal problems that plague HSTO at the beginning of each school year, including egregious billing errors and extremely slow line repairs. We may only be students, but as consumers we deserve better than this...
Though her editor forced her to return to the Net to finish her book, Herz has since resurfaced in the real world -- for good. She joins the growing ranks of disillusioned refugees who ventured into cyberspace and have now made the long march back. They bring tales of unmet expectations and warnings about a shimmering electronic mirage that seemed to promise intellectual, emotional and even financial sustenance but delivered nothing real. There's too much information and not enough substance, they gripe. Millions of people and no worthwhile communication. A solipsistic time sink that makes television watching seem like...