Word: unpreparedness
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In Washington, the meteorological chaos brings a heat wave to the Inaugural festivities. Unprepared GOP faithfuls are caught off guard by the high temperatures. Fur-clad women, collapsed from heat prostration, litter the broad boulevards of the capital. The genial second-term President quips in his vanguard speech, "no, I...
No one could have predicted such longevity for the infant Forster, least of all his formidable mother Lily. Her first baby had died at birth. The second, born on New Year's Day in 1879, survived, but his father was dead of tuberculosis 22 months later. Lily and a...
The fundamental reason that many banks face problems is that they were simply unprepared for the rapid growth and change they faced after deregulation. Says Southeast Banking's Zwick: "There are not enough good bankers to accommodate the proliferation of the industry. We've allocated the limited number...
Print journalists continue to do their job, which sometimes involves correcting a President's facts, recording divisions in his Administration or noting his own inattention to affairs, but they wonder how many want to hear it. Two months ago Reston noted "the remarkable gap between public opinion and inside...
Perhaps it is the fault of director Jeffrey Zaks or perhaps it is the weakness of the script itself, but the play's shift from slapstick None of the characters are developed enough to make their suffering believable and the play's broad beginning leaves the audience unprepared for any...