Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public now seemed squarely in favor of making common cause with the Europeans, was beginning to grumble as the government held back. Even the usually loyal London Times had stern words for the P.M.: "The government must set the pace . . . it must cease to shilly-shally . . . The pound is weak; no one is quite sure whether an economic crisis is around the corner or not; Britain appears almost as a frightened suitor at the feet of the Common Market...
...Some grad schools think the interview is a weak device," Doermann says, "but if you have good interviewers and people to take it in perspective, it can be successful. The problem is to get more and better interviewers...
Fact is, from the time it began operations in 1949, I.C.F.T.U. has probably been the biggest single source of help to the weak, scattered trade unions of Africa. Financed by such big Western union organizations as the U.S.'s A.F.L.-C.I.O. and Britain's Trades Union Congress (who recognize that if the free world's unions do not show African unionists how to organize, the Communists will), the Brussels-based I.C.F.T.U. maintains six fulltime roving representatives in Africa, pumped in $432.000 in hard cash last year. The money goes for union buildings, instruction in collective bargaining...
...nerves leading out of one of its ears, and connected the little insect to an amplifier and an oscillograph. Then they turned on an electronic generator that gave out brief bursts of ultrasonic sound-a reasonable imitation of a prowling bat. Even where the man-made beeps were too weak to be detected by man-made microphones, the moth's ear responded with electrical signals. When the imitation bat sounded louder, as if it were closing in, the moth's ear responded more strongly, covering the face of the oscillograph with trains of wiggly warning lines...
World War II was "unwinnable." The Western democracies had allowed themselves to become so weak that they could only defeat Germany with Russian aid. The inevitable price they had to pay was the extension of Soviet powers into Eastern Europe. Kennan thinks, nevertheless, that this extension could have been contained more effectively had the West kept this danger in mind through...