Word: weak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weak-hearted Harvard fans can only hope the wins won't be as traumatic as last night...
Nine years after his graduation, he left the Yale Law faculty to join and eventually chair the New Deal Securities and Exchange Commission. In 1939 he was nominated to the Supreme Court by Franklin Roosevelt. He faced down three impeachment attempts over the years. The first two were relatively weak efforts, one in 1953 after he stayed the executions of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and one in 1966 when the three-times divorced Douglas, then 67, married Cathleen Heffernan, who like his third wife was in her 20s. (Douglas had a son and a daughter by his first wife...
...Weak Case. The judge rejected all of the arguments raised by Joseph Quinlan's lawyer. Karen's reported past statements that she would not want to have her life artificially prolonged were dismissed as "too theoretical." The constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment did not apply, Muir said, because medical treatment "where its goal is the sustenance of life is not something degrading, arbitrarily inflicted, unacceptable to contemporary society or unnecessary." As for the right of privacy, it had to be subordinate in this case to "the state's interest in preservation of life." Muir noted...
Negotiating the pact slowly, during the transition, gives Kissinger two options. If Prince Juan Carlos should prove too weak to stave off inclusion of the left in a coalition, then the U.S. won't be in the "embarrassing" position of having signed a pact giving a left-of-center Spanish government $750 million in military aid and $250 million in economic assistance. And, less likely (but all the more interesting), Kissinger just might wait for a better treaty with a "stable" military junta in Spain...
Worse, there are only faint and flickering signs of revival in most nations except for the U.S. and, to a lesser extent, Japan. Economists generally do not expect any real upturn in European business until mid-1976-and they worry that even then the recovery may be so weak that, in the words of OECD Secretary-General Emile van Lennep, "it would not gather momentum and might peter out." One reason: the recession has pushed the volume of world trade 10% below the 1974 level, the first decline since World War II. The drop has a vicious-circle effect...