Word: strength
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...logical option. But Livni lacks support among the other parties. For starters, she needs to coax Netanyahu to join her. The two parties actually share many of the same policies and ideologies - Kadima broke away from Likud and drifted to the center - and, in theory, their combined strength could usher in a solid, center-right government. But the mutual antagonism of both leaders makes an accommodation all but impossible. Netanyahu, for example, refused to debate with Livni in public, and both rivals launched smear attacks against each other...
...figure is not just how large it is. More alarming is that the size of the revision is so big. How could 700 banks be added to the list so quickly? It is hard to say whether it should shake investor confidence in RBC projections or the strength of bank balance sheets...
...addition to compromising the integrity of the game, these substances also have many deleterious health effects. While enhancing aerobic and strength capabilities in the short term, performance-enhancing drugs have been shown to cause many longer-term health conditions like heart disease and liver damage—problems that should not affect professional athletes or the youngsters who aspire to imitate their sports heroes...
Much of Harvard’s financial strength comes from its intellectual strength. Hiring fresh academic minds is an essential component of both. Continuing to hire could, in fact, be considered Harvard’s role in fighting the economic downturn...
...support at the expense of the Labor Party, the late Yitzhak Rabin's erstwhile "party of peace" that had once ruled unchallenged, but which on Tuesday could only manage a distant fourth place with only 12 Knesset seats, according to the exit polls. And while Livni's strength was a function of Labor voters moving to the right to back Kadima, Netanyahu lost support not to the center, but to the far-right nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party of Avigdor Lieberman, whose third-place finish with 16 seats, according to exit polls, made it the story of the election. The surge...