Word: weak
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Certainly, self-interest needs to be regulated. Improvements in laws and guidelines are necessary to ensure that business interests do not exploit the weak or impinge on the environment, both of whom are unable to negotiate their own terms. A few people with toothpicks, often from privileged institutions like Harvard, have been afforded the luxury of fine-tuning these margins of the system, to keep the stray negative elements in line. I would beg them not to take the vast positive mass of that system, which enables this luxury in the first place, for granted...
...official statement, Chinese writers in the diaspora have weighed in on the joint declaration. The Business Times of Singapore, for example, wrote a strong editorial that said, even though "China has, on occasions, appeared intent on capitalizing on Japan's 'war guilt,' the fact is that Japan is on weak moral ground so long as it refuses even to recognize some of its previous wrongs against China...
...movies with Mel Gibson, he is as vulnerable to physical ailments as any other 51-year-old. Three years ago, he could no longer ignore a misalignment in his left hip he has had since a childhood accident. "I had a muscle dysfunction," he says. "My right leg was weak, and my left leg was strong." Thanks to a rigorous fitness regimen that includes Pilates workouts five times a week, the condition has been corrected...
Clinton signed the measure on Oct. 31, the day Saddam booted out U.N. inspectors, but aides say the President had no intention of passing one rifle to the hodgepodge of weak Iraqi opposition groups. (The measure leaves Clinton full discretion on whether and how to spend the money.) The Pentagon and the CIA still consider the legislation foolhardy in trying to arm an opposition "with no there there...
Form then on Harvard turned the game over to big men Fisher and senior center Bill Ewing. Fisher dominated the inside all night as he took advantage of Holy Cross' weak interior defense and capitalized for 11 first-half points as harvard began to extend its lead...