Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week Yovicsin may still be worried, but prospects are considerably brighter at the weak positions. One reason is the long-predicted but only recent switch of sophomore quarterback Ric Zimmerman to cornerback...
Down in Providence fans are very "high" on this year's Brown team, and most of their optimism is generated by the presence of Bob Hall at quarterback. His passing should be enough to devastate Rhode Island's weak defense...
Oddly enough, the President's almost unprecedented success with Congress deeply disturbs some observers. Republicans naturally echo House Minority Leader Gerald Ford's complaint that it has been "a weak, wet noodle" in Johnson's hands. Some independent critics object that important legislation has been rammed through almost without debate-though only a few years ago, when Congress was chronically deadlocked over vital bills, reformers argued that its machinery had become an unworkable anachronism...
...sounds like Armageddon Physicist Herman Kahn in his current Clausewitzian study, On Escalation: Metaphors and Scenarios, argues that high-intensity war has a rationale. He identifies 44 stages of escalation, ranging from "Ostensible Crisis," in which no bridges are burned (Rung 1), through "Constrained Force-Reduction Salvo against weak links at the outbreak of a war" (Rung 35) to "Spasm or Insensate War" with "all buttons pressed." His point: controlled response is as possible with thermonuclear artillery as it was with the howitzers of vore...
Partly because of rising buyer interest and partly because bank loans are becoming harder to obtain and the bond market is weak, many firms are planning to float new stock issues in the fall. They have been waiting since spring for the right time to bring their issues to market, feel that the current advance provides the proper opportunity. The market showed signs of profit-taking at week's end, may yet have some rocky sessions ahead. Many analysts are predicting, nonetheless, that it will soon break through to a new peak. Whatever the fall may bring, the market...