Nor did she mention Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the New York Times publisher, who said Saturday that he fired her for "arbitrary decision-making" and other managerial shortcomings while leading the newsroom the last three years.
Yet the populist FTC is hardly a model of restraint: "It could scarcely be more interventionist," complains a lawyer in Washington, DC.The ideal would be to address Europe's procedural shortcomings, while avoiding the excesses of the American system, says Ian Forrester, a competition lawyer based in Brussels.
Aren't we grown children prone to blaming parents for our shortcomings, while reaping the glory for our accomplishments?
Mr. Thomson's reserve enables him to deal frankly with Levi's emotional struggles and personal shortcomings, while avoiding the modern biographer's overpowering temptations: to treat his main character as a moral inferior or a patient to be diagnosed.
It was hiding in plain sight; using vulgarity and vulnerability to appear honest about his shortcomings, while obscuring the actual depths of his abuses and failings.
Others charged that Providence Talks was imposing middle-class cultural values on poorer parents who had their own valid approaches to raising children, and argued that the program risked faulting parents for their children's academic shortcomings while letting schools off the hook.
But these shortcomings, while palpable, do little to detract from the immense utility of the Requirements.
He acknowledged the agency's shortcomings while defending it against criticism from state officials.
Her primary criticisms in the book focus on the FAA's reluctance to address its many shortcomings, while expressing her concern that there was a fundamental conflict of interest between the FAA job of oversight and the FAA job of promoting aviation.
With plenty of explosions and gunfights, it's fast-paced enough to gloss over the plot's almost inevitable shortcomings, while just engaging enough to avoid charges of vacuity.
