Word: impracticall
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One of cinema's immutable rules holds that any remake must invariably be inferior to the original. We do not reward embezzlers with good-citizenship prizes, do we? But rules are made to be broken, and the new version of Preston Sturges' 1948 comedy, Unfaithfully Yours, scores a...
The first step in the existing procedure requires a woman who is being harassed to first discuss this problem with her immediate supervisor. In many cases her supervisor is the one who is harassing her in the first place, so this step is impractical for dealing with sexual harassment. In...
Prior refused to resign and dismissed calls for greatly tougher security measures as either impractical or likely to hand the I.R.A. new propaganda weapons. Instead, he promised a modest redeployment of the 10,000 British troops in Northern Ireland, with more undercover antiterrorist patrols by police and the elite Special...
U.S. officials professed bemusement over Nicaragua's anxiety. The successful invasion of the flyspeck island of Grenada, they insisted, provided no precedent for an offensive against Nicaragua's well-armed and well-trained combined regular army and militia force of 100,000. "The fears of the government are...
One Harvard professor has computed the selection of tenured professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to the canonization of a saint. He is not too far off. The search for and appointment of scholars to Harvard's chairs and other permanent position is one of the most exacting...