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...Pataki has his own potential Achilles' heel, left exposed because of his steady leftward drift. Rochester billionaire Tom Golisano, in his third Independent run for the Governor's mansion, spent $30 million winning the roughly 9,000 primary votes it took to beat Pataki for the Independence Party nomination - around $3,000 a vote. He says he is prepared to spend an additional $30 million to $40 million to get elected, aiming especially at Pataki's support in the more conservative upstate counties. In addition to slashing spending to avoid a state budget collapse (a $10 billion deficit is projected...
...goal is to use this blueprint to find the Achilles heel, or weak point, of the parasite and use drugs to attack that," Wirth said...
...Iraq is the Achilles heel of E.U. foreign policy," says Steven Everts of the Centre for European Reform in London. "The European debate has been too reactive: Do you or do you not support a U.S. attack?" Everts argues that instead of responding with horror to each new leaked report of U.S. battle plans, the E.U. should come up with alternatives of its own and inject these into Washington's deliberations...
...piano and howl about the shaking that was going on. He rose, still pounding, and he kicked the piano stool back. It shot across the stage, tumbling, skidding... Steve Allen laughed and threw the stool back, then threw other furniture, and Jerry Lee played some high notes with the heel of his shoe. Then he stopped and looked at the camera sideways again. Neither he nor Steve Allen had ever heard louder applause...
...past seven months, the lone problem has been the tunnel, which planners have described as crucial to CGIS—but it has also become the project’s Achilles’ heel, as obtaining the easement for the tunnel requires permission from two-thirds of the Cambridge city council...