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...poverty in 1964. In the '70s, Richard Nixon started wars on cancer and, most memorably, on drugs. "The irony is that all of these wars on abstractions have pretty much been failures," says Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard. "It's a bit of a conceptual mismatch. If your roof leaks, you don't have a war against rain." Often those waging the wars request a name change. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey, who fought in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, called the war metaphor "inadequate" for drugs in 1996: "This isn't going to be won by anybody...
...catches a lot of balls underneath, but can beat you deep also,” Yale coach Jack Siedlecki added. “He is very physical and poses a physical mismatch for many of the corners and safeties in our league...
HIRA: I'm all for the idea of human-capital credit. But you're supposing there's all this opportunity and some kind of skills mismatch. There aren't good data coming out of firms saying there's a lot of job openings in the U.S., and we're looking for people, we just can't find them...
...There was a huge mismatch between reception in Japan and reception abroad, but it wouldn’t be cinema history without him in a major way,” says Connor, who currently teaches “Cinema of the Sound Era” in the VES department and requires his students to watch Ozu’s films. “We’re lucky,” he says. “You don’t get this chance very often...
Patrick Wilson’s William Travis is a violent womanizer and gambler who emerges as a naturally strong leader under even the most intense pressure. This mismatch creates a depth of personality and characterization that makes Travis’ majestic leadership rallying the men for their last stand all the more heartbreaking...