Word: weak
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Cloud Seeding. In Vienna, Ga., home town of President Carter's press secretary Jody Powell, Dooly County Farm Agent Mack Sloan manages a weak wisecrack: "If it don't rain here soon, a lot of people will go under and have to go into selling roadside peanuts to Plains tourists." Farmers in every county, including Tom Chandler, Billy Carter's partner in several peanut deals, are collecting one dollar for every acre of peanut land so they can hire an airplane for a month's cloud seeding at a total cost of $75,000. Last week...
...with his White House host. Carter praised his commitment to "individual freedom and liberty," as well as his leadership in lobbying for tighter controls over nuclear proliferation. Pérez applauded Carter's stand on human rights, saying, "Many years have passed since small and weak nations heard a voice rise from a great nation to tell the world that human values are paramount." In the 43-min. toast that Pérez delivered at the state dinner, he struck one of his favorite themes: improving the dialogue between the developed and the developing countries. Later...
...quite nothing. Burly Christian Democratic Leader Helmut Kohl, who opposed Schmidt in last October's election, has proved to be an ineffectual performer in the Bundestag, unsure of his tactics, unable to exploit the government's mistakes and weaknesses. Kohl must also cope with the open contempt and sideline sniping of right-leaning Franz Josef Strauss, chief of the Bavarian-based Christian Social Union. Strauss believes that Kohl is too weak and not conservative enough. A number of Christian Democrats agree with the first of these charges, but they are unlikely to change leaders so soon after last...
Professing amazement at the opposition B'nai Yeshua has aroused from Long Island Jews and Establishment Protestants, Evans says: "We are just a bunch of young Jewish kids." Evans, who was given a weak religious upbringing by his Jewish mother, ran a Texas Bible camp until he felt God tell him that a great revival was coming in the New York City area. Despite his Jewish emphasis, he gets backing from such Gentile Pentecostal stalwarts as Christian Broadcaster Pat Robertson and Evangelist David Wilkerson...
...Astrophysicist Alan Barrett, who decided that the same electronic wizardry that was enabling him to tune in to microwaves from free-floating molecules in interstellar space could have a down-to-earth application. If they were reduced in size, he reasoned, the sensitive antennas could even pick up the weak microwave (or heat) emissions from a tumor...