Word: directionless
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...don’t just want to follow directionless reductions, one after another,” said Smith, who stressed the importance of implementing carefully informed structural changes that do not compromise quality...
...scenic Cape Ann, the economy has always depended on a strong fishing industry. But in recent years, such jobs have all but disappeared overseas, and with them much of the community's wherewithal. "Families are broken," says school superintendent Christopher Farmer. "Many of our young people are growing up directionless." (See the top 10 news stories...
...Yourself” all feel like second-rate Stripes songs, and Benson’s vocal and instrumental contributions to each are inoffensive at best and crippling at worst. The lyrics yawn, their pasteboard depth most evident on the utterly directionless “You Don’t Understand Me” (“And there’s always another point of view, / A better way to do the things we do, / And how can you know me and I know you, / If nothing is true?”). Boredom only serves as the first shock wave...
...Terror. Their trials constitute the second storyline. The third and least thrilling story line (although no terribly high standards are set by the other two) takes place in the West Coast, as Professor Stephen Malley—poorly played by Redford—attempts to encourage a directionless student to take a social stance. Redford fails to weave together the three unrelated plots into one deeply connected film. At the end, “Lions” frustrates viewers by not working coherently. The overly complicated film, ironically, lacks human complexity in its characters; they feel surprisingly one-dimensional...
...stock market's worst month in three years. But the events of the last few days of July felt more ominous and potentially earthshaking than that would indicate. Everybody could see the stock downturn--a couple of sharp drops followed by what looked to be directionless confusion. Yet the sharpest tremors were felt behind the scenes, in the shadowy worlds of private-equity and hedge funds...