One is simply lack of know-how.
What the Knicks cannot make up for is their lack of know-how when it comes to pulling off victories.
It is the lack of will, not lack of know-how and technical skill, that has caused this rise in throwaway appliances.
The problem is not a lack of know-how, but a lack of political will and financial backing to see plans through.
If the Dynamic Tower is not built, Mr Wood says, the explanation will not be an unavoidable lack of know-how, but an old-fashioned lack of money.
A lack of know-how and technology, he said, was the cause of some of the shirtfronts that have threatened to rob Test cricket of its flavour in recent times.
But Ihsane el-Kadi, a local economist, reckons the real reasons are a more complex mix of Kremlinesque local politics, clashing business interests and a lack of know-how for upgrading the system.
The author recounts his two-year vigil with the Makah Indians of Neah Bay, Wash., as they sought to restore their tribal tradition of hunting the gray whale, a pursuit hampered by animal-rights protesters, internal squabbling and, above all, a lack of know-how (the tribe stopped whaling a generation before).
Lack of know-how, says Strube.
This lack of know-how can become problematic, since the municipality may have to trust in a provider whose opinion may be biased.
But it wasn't just lack of know-how that led the company to ditch the idea of the traditional deck.
