Word: weak
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...didn't like herself very much. She figured losing a few kilograms would take her closer to perfection, but when that didn't work she set about losing more. By last Christmas, now 18, her weight had plunged from 55 kg to 32 kg. Racked by headaches and too weak to leave the house, she was often irrational yet also cunning in the ways she foiled her mother's attempts to make her eat. Because the girl she saw in the mirror still looked fat in the hips, thighs and stomach, she ignored her family's pleadings that...
When the Harvard women’s soccer team (3-11-1, 2-3-0 Ivy) suffered its third straight loss, 5-0, at Princeton on Saturday night, its defensive collapse in the eleventh minute of the second half told the story of the team’s weak play. With the Crimson already trailing 3-0 at the 56th minute, Princeton’s Vicki Anangnostopaulos, who had already netted two goals, doubled her total in a mere 33 seconds, giving her a golden sombrero on a career night. Anangnostopaulos’s performance put her in elite company...
...dynamic producers to attack the competition by giving them more liberty to do it in their own way." This isn't just talk. Bordeaux itself has put in place a series of measures that are broadly similar to the ones proposed by Brussels. The civb is offering to pay weak producers to pull up their vines. A new quality-control system is being implemented that, if enforced properly, could lead to underperforming wineries losing their right to call their wine Bordeaux. The Council is also quietly encouraging the 57 different Bordeaux appellations to consolidate. Five big areas...
...have gained one lesson in my first three years at Harvard it is that anything worth doing involves a risk and, given the weak to non-existent content of much of what students talk about on a daily basis, I don’t feel we can’t do a whole lot worse. The ability to argue forcefully while remaining respectful and measured is a critical skill, and one that is rarely developed in classrooms anymore because of the almost complete abandonment of public speaking, and the palpable sense of apathy which infects most discussion sections...
...Think about your party's negatives A candidate's instinct is "to stick with your own tribe," Halperin says. But Clinton and Bush successfully addressed their parties' weak spots, like crime for the Dems and education for the G.O.P. "By doing that," says Halperin, "they not only appealed to independents but also strengthened their own parties." And their own electoral fortunes...