Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expressed his doubts. "I don't want a third world war," he said. "I want to ask more questions. I want more discussion and debate." He asked more questions, and he got more discussion and debate, and he made up his mind. "I've got a little weak spot in my stomach," he said. "The answer...
Because of the great distance and the craft's weak 10½-watt radio transmitter, it took 8 hr. 35 min. to transmit the coded data that made up one picture. And by the time the signals reached a tracking station, they were no stronger than one-billionth of one-billionth of a watt. Those faint whispers were picked up by big-dish antennas and amplified a thousand times as they were piped through a liquid helium maser. So slow was the transmission rate that no complete picture could be received at any one tracking station. As the Earth...
...follows, can selectively withdraw from its frontiers without inviting another empire to advance. America cannot abandon her responsibilities in any one part of the world without sacrificing them elsewhere. An empire does not exist apart from the will at the center, and that will cannot be shown to be weak in one area without its being assumed to be weak elsewhere...
While North Viet Nam is thus strong in men and motivation, it is weak in the critical area of modern weaponry. Giap's air force is still minuscule, though Soviet contributions of obsolescent aircraft (MIGs and medium-range IL-28 bombers) have doubled it in the past four months to 60 planes. Now and then audacity can overcome obsolescence, as it did last March, when three MIGs took on a flight of U.S. jets twice their speed and bagged a brace. Last week the technological superiority of American planes and weapons asserted itself: missile-armed Phantoms flying combat...
...become a millionaire," says Bernard Feinberg, 40, "you have got to have confidence and ego-and I have both." On a map of Chicago, he pinpointed neighborhoods with strong business potential but weak banking facilities, opened up a score of small-currency exchanges in those areas; as his business developed, he started the Jefferson State Bank (assets: $35 million), and became one of the youngest U.S. bank presidents. Another millionaire who has used money to make money is Phoenix Mortgage Banker A. B. ("Bob") Robbs Jr., 43, who went into New York cold in 1949, sold bankers on the wonders...