Word: unpreparedness
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A top Clinton aide insisted last week that the crisis had been "completely unavoidable" ever since Clinton first promised to lift the ban in a speech in Boston in October 1991. But a close look at how Clinton and his team tried in recent weeks to defuse the issue shows...
Snug -- and smug -- in their manicured garden, Singaporeans are unprepared for the jungle of the outside world. "They generally don't transplant well," says a Hong Kong-based executive of an international firm. "When faced with difficulties, they wilt."
"I would never go into a section unprepared,but I can see how seniors would expect more out ofsections, seeing that they've been exposed tocollege for four years."
NO ONE EVER SAID PEACE AND DEMOCRACY WOULD come easily. Sixteen bloody years after they were granted abrupt and unprepared independence from Portuguese rule, the southern African states of Mozambique and Angola finally have peace in sight. In Angola, two weeks after the country's first democratic election, the contenders...
Those unprepared to indulge Fischer for his monomaniacal genius should at least indulge him for his looniness. Someone seized with his hallucinatory visions may be playing in embargoed Yugoslavia but is living on the moon. Fischer is no more situated in this world than was another world champion, Alexander Alekhine...