Word: drawback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Playing with a former Olympian (MacDonald) and the Crimson's top goal-scorer (Young) may be a thrill for Hartje, but living with them--the three are Kirkland House roommates--has a drawback...
Cheney's principal drawback is his health. He had his first heart attack during his initial congressional campaign, and two more followed before he underwent bypass surgery last August. Cheney -- who said last week that he got his cardiologist's O.K. to take the Pentagon job -- generally shrugs off questions about his condition. "Some people are short, fat and ugly," he told the Casper (Wyo.) Star Tribune last year. "I happen to have coronary- artery disease...
...Another drawback has been the cost. Home-banking customers pay up to $144 a year for the service, far more than the average household spends on the checks and stamps used to pay bills. But the biggest obstacle is that home computers have no way to produce hard cash, so they fail to eliminate a customer's periodic trek to the bank or automated-teller machine...
...drawback to this Stonification process is that many of the songs follow the Stones pattern of taking an unadorned riff, establishing a groove with it and playing it for a long time without really taking it anywhere or building upon it. But what riffs! Keith plays as well as he always has, generating that unmistakable fuzztone sound that is his alone, and that redeems any flaws the songs may have...
...reverse the slide, the Bush team will rely more heavily on the political organization of Governor George Deukmejian. The "real Duke," as Republicans call their sober, taciturn Governor to distinguish him from Dukakis, is still mentioned as a possible running mate for Bush. But there is one major drawback to that scenario: if elected, Deukmejian would have to hand over the nation's largest statehouse to a Democrat...