Word: weak
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...want to be a spokesperson unless you are absolutely committed to a cause because you can hurt it. I've been asked to help represent environmental groups. I'm a big proponent of cleaning up the environment. I have two electric cars. But I also have a big weak spot because I've flown on private jets. However, I welcome any of these dumb pundits who make celebrities out to be bad guys to a discussion about Darfur. Because I've been there and I've met all the players, and I guarantee you, the pundits haven...
...left out of the boom, it would be easy to conclude that Hu's job had hardly started. In his first years in office, it was often said that Hu was unable to get his vision adopted by powerful provincial leaders. But the old judgment that he is a weak leader may be changing. Li notes that the President has spent the past five years ensuring that the top bureaucratic and party ranks were staffed by his allies. Green detected a growing assurance in the times he met Hu. "In the beginning," he says, "Hu would conduct his meetings with...
...said she thought the “fundamental problem” was that since the 1970s, American toy makers have been able to choose when to disclose problems with their products. “What has changed in the last 6 years is that we’ve had weak regulation and the regulators who are supposed to be keeping the toy makers from putting the dangerous products on shelves have been asleep,” Felcher added. Kuneva said that while Europe has benefitted from the U.S. idea of “consumer advocacy...
...14th that “held together what turned out to be a very good round today,” Rhoads said. “This course beats everyone up a little bit, and you find where you’re strong and where you’re weak and learn from the weak to get better,” Rhoads said, already thinking ahead to next week’s ECAC Championships, which were cancelled last year due to rainy conditions. “Every tournament we’re in, we definitely have a chance...
...County prosecutor and sometimes invites the judge to speak for his litigation classes, says that the tough going for the defense may not be indicative of what Porter really thinks of the case. Daly says that Porter is the kind of judge who "might say this case was so weak from the beginning, he might let it go to trial." The judge is expected to decide on the merits of going forward by next week...