Word: weak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first period opened with exciting two-way soccer as no team could mount any serious pressure. Midway through the period, however, Brown forwards and halfbacks began to penetrate the Crimson zone, knocking down Crimson clearing shots and intercepting weak passes. The Bruins peppered Harvard goalie Brad Damiani, who was called upon to make numerous lunging saves to keep the Crimson in the game...
...Bateman, Brown's excellent quarterback, likes to sprint out to the weak side, calling for his blockers to double team the end on that side. Brown goes only as far as Bateman's arm can take them. To shut him down, Baggott will have to fight off the blockers and keep up the pressure on the Brown quarterback...
...Cadillac Seville and crammed in his quadraphonic stereo system, clothes, and 700 Ibs. of weights. With Keating aboard for talk, he drove the 746 miles from Memphis to Lisbon (pop. 4,000) in 15 grueling hours, stopping only for gas and a quick breakfast of orange juice, doughnuts and weak coffee. They arrived exhausted, but Keating immediately began telephoning N.F.L. teams from the farm. Within hours, the two headed for New York City to talk business with Andy Robustelli of the New York Giants and Joe Thomas of the Baltimore Colts, and to appear on television shows...
...Secretary of Defense probably had more complex roots. Schlesinger did appear to be more conservative than Ford and Kissinger on detente and on defense spending, and as such appealed to the right. But Schlesinger liked to perform apocalyptically for the press and the public, thus making Ford look weak. To further his decisive new image, Ford needs a SALT agreement, and Schlesinger's behavior in recent weeks indicated that he was hindering the SALT negotiations. Ford's "advisors" seem to feel, perhaps rightly, that a major foreign policy agreement, even one oriented toward detente, will do a great deal...
...banks--large, powerful, mechanical things--that are running the show, and the people are powerless. The banks want a limitless "blank check" from the government to help them "escape responsibility" and "be further excused from making the hard decisions." If the fiscal crisis has made New York disorderly, irresponsible, weak and dishonest, it is precisely because the city is no longer a community of people, but an agglomeration of institutions. New York bankers and officials are "desperate," but the people will not be "stampeded" by them. If Ford's attack on the banks is wholly inconsistent with his politics...