Word: weak
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...Thursday night, and the tailgate moved from the flooded Ohiri Field to a crowded parking lot, the signs were clear that this year’s party was going to be a damp squib. Alas, Saturday fulfilled expectations. While Harvard and Yale students made the best of the weak hand they were dealt and should be applauded for their efforts, neither the tight rules nor their shoddy implementation proved conducive to the kind of fun and successful tailgate experienced in years past...
Even though the city of Miami has the third worst poverty rate in the nation, there have been few credible attempts to help the lowest earners find housing. One problem is weak government oversight of development--a sign, some complain, that Miami's sun-soaked complacency has addled its political leaders as well. "Planning is disdained as the enemy here," says Gihan Perera, director of the Miami Workers Center. Local anger boiled over recently at a housing scandal that Perera's group helped the Miami Herald expose: Miami-Dade's government housing agency paid millions of dollars to politically connected...
...Western Branch High School in Chesapeake, Va., he stepped into a depleted secondary and was called on to start games with a cast protecting a broken hand. He was then squeezed out of a starter’s role as a sophomore, before shifting around from corner to weak-side safety. Tanner would start again, obviously. But he didn’t make a fuss either...
...empty nester looking to downsize, don't let the weak housing market stop you. You may be working with less equity today than you had a year ago--but it could be more than you will have a year from now. And swapping your McMansion for something smaller today leaves you less exposed in a falling market...
...trust.”Facing Brown’s relatively strong middle blocking and weaker outside blocking, the Crimson deviated from its trademark reliance on middle hitters such as Turley-Molony and junior Suzie Trimble and leaned more heavily on its outside hitters.McKinley capitalized on Brown’s weak outside blocking with a match-leading 15 kills.Despite Harvard’s strong attack, the Bears’ league-leading digging resulted in “really, really, really long rallies,” according to Durwood. These rallies forced Harvard to make 75 digs, an average...