Word: weak
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...Kobe Bryant, is making history as he tries to do to his Lakers team what Marbury did to that intern. It's not just that he's demanded a trade. He's also blocking a four-for-one deal with Chicago that he thinks would leave the Bulls too weak to win a championship. In other words, he's demanding a bad trade...
...bomb thought to be made there killed 40 people in Fallujah during a funeral procession in May, and a cell of bomb makers was cut down by Iraqi police in Sinaa as recently as August. They say they are in a race against time. "Al-Qaeda is very weak, but all of Fallujah is still afraid," said Al Fallujy, the Sinaa mukhtar. "We've got an opportunity here," said Chief Warrant Officer Steve Townsley, the head of the Marine civil affairs unit there. "Right now we're not so focused on security that we can't focus on business...
...with David than Goliath," he declared. Or with Elijah than 850 prophets of Baal. Or with Daniel and the lions than the Babylonians. The point was not lost on the crowd of Sunday school veterans: the Bible is, after all, jam-packed with stories of the seemingly weak who triumph, heroes who shock the naysayers...
...Rudy's Electoral College argument has its share of weak spots. If he would put some blue states into play, his name on the G.O.P. ticket also would invite some red ones onto the dance floor, too. He would have to work harder to hold border states like Tennessee (11) and Missouri (11) than Bush did against Kerry and could hardly take Arkansas (11) for granted, assuming Clinton parks her husband there for a few days in October (that prospect alone is reason for keeping an eye on Mike Huckabee in the G.O.P. veepstakes). Meanwhile, Iowa (7) and New Mexico...
...lack the political strength to push forward the economic liberalization measures that many in India's business community and in the West had expected. "By backing down after raising the bar so high," the Times of India editorial warned, "the government has signaled, in effect, that it is weak and open to blackmail on any issue by any pressure group in parliament. With one-and-a-half years remaining for polls, and the Left demonstrating it holds the whip hand in government, hopes for economic reform...