Word: weak
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...must think beyond a one year term to be on the same page as administrators. “If we don’t articulate something that tells the administrators where we want to be five years down the road... we’re just going to be a weak lobbying group that applies minimal pressure and changes its goals from year to year,” Zaidi says. EXPERIENCE AND INSPIRATION While UC veterans Zaidi and Lee have council experience under their belts, they say their families were their largest inspiration. Zaidi has served on the UC since...
...operation, that's the problem in Iraq." Would Rumsfeld be so spiteful as to embarrass the President like that? We'll probably never know. It may be that the President's agenda for the al-Maliki meeting was a relatively simple public relations ploy: to show support for a weak Iraqi partner and-with the Baker-Hamilton report looming-to reassert that Bush will be the "decider" on Iraq strategy. But even that simple mission failed...
...that points to the biggest weaknesses in any rescue plan. Whether it is the Baker approach or whatever the White House decides to call its own, events in Iraq could easily make any plan for diplomacy and withdrawal irrelevant in the face of a weak central government, a deepening civil war and widespread violence. A commission official put it this way: "What we have produced is a plan for December. We have no idea what things are going to look like in February...
...postal-reform program. Though they pledged to toe the party line, their readmission sent a signal that the LDP's commitment to reform may be halfhearted. "It will hurt us badly," says Taro Kono, assistant chairman of the LDP's policy-research council. "Abe is seen as a weak leader." At least Bono likes...
...quickly, but once we figured out that they didn’t have an answer for our big guy we were able to get better shots.” After the half, Harvard’s nerves smoothed and its offense clicked, producing impressive totals that a relatively weak defensive effort by the Crimson could negate. By utilizing Cusworth’s strong inside-out passing, Harvard created easier shots, boosting its second-half shooting percentage to 64 percent (16-of-25). Colgate’s shooting remained fairly constant at 51 percent (50 percent for the game). Players agreed...