Word: weak
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...good organization, the support of some of the state's best-known politicians and plenty of money (nationwide he had spent more than $2.4 million). But his campaigning lacked force and personality, and his banal statements on the issues apparently persuaded many Oklahoma voters that he was a weak candidate. Bentsen will stay in the May 1 Texas primary as a favorite-son candidate, chiefly to demonstrate his home-state strength as a vote getter and enhance his prospects for re-election this year to the Senate. Thus, even before the first primary, the Democrats have lost...
...tomorrow's agenda. He said that his own government "overspends, is highly inefficient, unresponsive to the calls and needs of the people and is all but impossible to control and direct." He promised a thorough over haul of both the bureaucracy and the island's weak education system...
...position on the Zionism resolution and Angola. Not only is the use of U.S. foreign aid as a political weapon certain to hurt independent leftist third world regimes but such usage would be irrational even on its own terms, because it could only be used against those countries too weak to protect themselves, whether or not they are the chief opponents of American policy. It may be assumed that wealthy or strategically important Arab states will continue to enjoy American patronage, regardless of their votes...
...expert in sex therapy called the book "technically instructive"; another doctor, however, warned that the author's "circus-trick" love-making techniques could prove fatal to the weak of heart. The object of their testimony: a raunchy paperback autobiography by Porn Queen Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat. After deliberating for nearly five hours at London's Old Bailey courthouse, a jury of nine men and three women found the British publisher of the book, titled Inside Linda Lovelace, innocent of obscenity charges. Linda declared herself "ecstatic," but others were less pleased. Groused Labor M.P. Neil Kinnock, when...
...judges' minds to cause their attitudes of collaboration--the events of injustice would have taken on a more human quality. A scanty plot would then have human underpinnings to compensate for its lack of suspense. As it is, we have neither psychology nor action--only irony, a weak substitute...