Mr. Hirsh puts his finger on the chief deficiency of online education: the absence of creativity that flourishes in a "world that student and teacher investigate together".
Generally, writing programs are no more harmful than patronage has been through the centuries, and their chief deficiency — producing a uniform sort of competence — is too well known to require further warning from me.
"The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement," he writes, "is in its polarization: Us vs. Them--the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all those stupid doctrines are morons". He says that skeptics fail to see and appreciate the social and psychological needs that are met by New Age beliefs.
In his first full account of the crisis, the BAA chief executive admits deficiencies in the way the company dealt with the bad weather.
"I do not believe time, nor training, will be able to change or correct the deficiencies," Independence Deputy Chief Jim Polak stated of Loehmann in a letter at the time.
Although folic acid fortification may have left cobalamin deficiency as the chief influence on homocysteine concentrations among the elderly in the United States (84), folate status explains 15% of homocysteine variation, compared with 4% for cobalamin status in European countries without fortification (33).
Substitutions of aluminum cations (Al3+) for silicon cations (Si4+) constitute the chief imbalance, but the net charge deficiency may be partially balanced by other substitutions within the mica layer; there is always a residual net charge deficiency commonly in the range from 0.6 to 0.8 per O10(O102.
"Co-op Bank's failings stand out both for the duration and seriousness of the risk management and control deficiencies uncovered," says Andrew Bailey, the chief executive of the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority PRAA).
In issuing the order, Langhorne Bond, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, cited "grave and potentially dangerous deficiencies" in a plate that reinforces engine mountings on the wing.
"These deficiencies are serious," Shelly Rouillard, the department's chief deputy director, told The Huffington Post.
