A lack of decent troops and aircraft is only part of the problem: more serious is the lack of will among European governments.For want of better news, NATO's new secretary-general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, will make bold claims in Istanbul for his Afghan mission.
Myles Brand, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, said in a statement that the Colorado scandal was a "symptom of a more serious malady, the lack of integration of intercollegiate athletics into the mainstream of a university".
The more serious allegations – a lack of drinking water (in water fountains and subsequently even from taps), understaffed bars which then closed due to overcrowding, no toilet paper in bathrooms – provide significant cause for concern.
While Congress and the White House were focused on simply buying up hundreds of billions in mortgage loans gone bad, leaders like Mr. Brown sought to fix a deeper, even more serious threat: a lack of faith in the banks themselves.
Similarly, when the polarization of the compensation level becomes more serious, employees may lack their self-efficacy and job satisfaction, and thus lose self-respect and intrinsic motivation (Heneman 1992; Deci et al. 1999).
But for most of us, even this dire warning conjures up nothing more serious than a lack of choice at the supermarket or the sushi place.
More serious is the lack of control of possible confounding factors.
Somehow, the more serious concern of lack of interpersonal comparability in survey responses has largely been ignored by social scientists (4).
The more serious, though, seem lacking without some all-out BBQ.
Most of that has come from Mr. Dowd, a former high school history teacher, who has attacked Mr. Ravenstahl at every turn, accusing him of missteps as minor as buying lavish trash cans and of more serious charges of lacking vision and even overseeing a corrupt administration.
