Word: unpreparedness
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Like its namesake, the bald eagle, the Eagle Scout is something of an endangered species. Only an exiguous 2.5% of all Boy Scouts become Eagles, and the number of Scouts as a whole has dwindled. Yet be prepared for this statistic: the 1 millionth Eagle Scout, Alexander Holsinger, 13, made...
Wysocki and his accomplices, however, were unprepared for the practical details of their attack. Within 24 hours, they released one of their hostages, a pregnant embassy employee. They also decided to allow the Bern police to deliver packages of food, medicine and newspapers to the embassy's doorstep, and...
Liv Ullmann is Mrs. Alving, who must watch her dead past revive, her dreams destroyed and her only son slip into syphilitic madness, all in a day. As Ullmann has proved under the direction of Ingmar Bergman, she is an actress of depth and stature. This time, however, she seems...
The competency debate has its analogues in the shift towards more stringent college admissions requirements for instruction in specific subjects and in the thorny issues of equal access raised by the exodus of-well-off families from public to private schools. Reagan, clearly, would have no qualms about stringent basic...
Such distortions, unsettling enough in the abstract, in practical terms undermined Crile and Adams' often substantial case. In one instance of sleight of hand, Westmoreland was shown apparently acknowledging awareness of a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington at which military officers allegedly pared down enemy troop estimates to...