Word: weak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seen people who are really far gentler, less agressive souls than I am, give in to what I consider--fooey, fuck what I consider--what they consider to be forms of corruption in their time here. And the reason is not that they are enormously weak, but because there's nothing here to support them...
...said President Carter has been represented as a weak president because he has permitted too much dialogue and has tried to be "too democratic...
...trusted as the leader of a Western military or political alliance? Fortunately, no one is yet asking that fundamental question, and Washington had better make sure it does not come up. Today, as always, the American dollar remains the worldwide symbol of the U.S. itself; if the currency is weak and friendless, the nation eventually will be too. - Christopher Byron
...power and capacity for leadership, and worries grow about the future of the West's free economies. It troubles Triffin that Washington's policymakers, many of them his friends and former students, do not seem to recognize these dangers. Their dollar-defending moves have been weak and tentative, and their rather cavalier philosophy seems to be: Let the dollar fall-that will help America's trade balance...
...weak dollar also threatens a flight of capital from the U.S., just when America needs more investment to create jobs, dig for oil and develop all those costly alternative sources of energy. Sure, Europeans and Japanese and Latin Americans have been putting much of their surplus cash into land and factories in the U.S., which they figure is immune to the socialism that infects many of their own countries. But they would invest much more-particularly in the U.S. stock market, which is undervalued and could use the lift from abroad-if the dollar showed signs of recovery. So long...