John Osbon: There is one overwhelming fatal flaw in the ratings agency model: The issuers themselves pay for ratings.
Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.
The Indian government called an emergency meeting of health officials yesterday to discuss the outbreak, which has infected about 500 people, overwhelming hospitals and exposing serious flaws in the public health system.
It owed its fall less to any flaw than to the overwhelming force that was mounted against it.
Although, in government circles, there is little outright support for Iraq's ruler, there is an overwhelming sense that American policy is flawed and that it is time that the Iraqi people stopped paying the price.
Flawed humanity tested by overwhelming challenges rings true today.
After the Thursday vote, Nederlander and AEG said they were "disappointed that the board did not carefully consider the overwhelming evidence" that the evaluation process was flawed.
The flaws are immediately apparent, and rather overwhelming.
As with all surveys this one had its flaws, but it provided a healthy counter point to the overwhelming urge to imagine everyone in a wheelchair had been inspired to emulate David Weir.
Yet, just as the Baret has one immediate, daunting flaw — the hand is not the poet's — the portrait has, to its doubters, one overwhelming problem: it does not look much like Shakespeare.
