Word: weak
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Turco shares the team's optimism about this season. "The scoring ability is 100 per cent improved," he says, "although our defense is definitely a question mark. I wouldn't say that it is weak; it's more that, with the exception of Gurry, it's inexperienced...
Today Keller, and the Harvard varsity fencing team will face even weaker competition--Holy Cross at 2:30 p.m. in the IAB. The Cross was crushed by a weak Harvard team last year, and this year's powerhouse squad will have no trouble disposing of the Crusaders...
Harvard should not find the improved Dartmouth squad a difficult and pesky match. The Crimson is riding a two-game winning streak--over admittedly weak teams--but they have demonstrated an impressive depth of scorers and defenders...
Without any additional thrust, Apollo's own momentum and the weak lunar gravity would combine to carry it around the moon and fling it back toward earth in a spatial version of crack-the-whip. Indeed, if a recheck of systems and equipment convinces ground controllers and the astronauts that serious problems have developed, the crew will merely continue in this new course and travel back to earth. But if everything seems all right, Apollo's powerful SPS (service propulsion system) engine will be fired for 246 sec. to slow the spacecraft and allow it to be pulled...
...Restrict the powers of some speculators, including the huge multinational corporations, most of which are U.S.-controlled. Such firms hold enormous cash reserves in foreign currencies. Whenever a crisis threatens, treasurers rush to shift their reserves from "weak" currencies (currently French francs and British pounds) into "strong" currencies (currently German marks, Swiss francs and others) and thus bring on or aggravate a crisis...