Word: weak
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Presidential candidate John Kerry’s weak responses to accusations about his military conduct in Vietnam are an apt example...
...large earthquake is highly improbable in Boston, although one cannot be absolutely ruled out,” said Hooper Professor of Geology Paul F. Hoffman. However, others said that Cambridge and Boston are as vulnerable to damages caused by earthquakes as San Francisco because of Boston’s weak ground, not because of subterranean tectonic activity. Eva E. Zanzerkia ’97, an associate program director in the National Science Foundation’s division of earth sciences, found in research done at Harvard that Boston’s thousand acres of man-made fill and river basins...
...ABOVE GOALS CAN BE achieved--and there's no guarantee that they can--what will Iraq look like? In the short run, it could wind up resembling the Administration's other exercise in nation building, Afghanistan: lawless and plagued by jihadist insurgents, with a weak central government dependent on U.S. protection for survival. Optimistic U.S. and Iraqi officials hope that over the course of years the country will evolve into an Arab version of Pakistan, a fractious quasi-democracy held together by a strongman but reasonably able to defend itself. Few Americans had such an outcome in mind when...
...Discontent with Republicans is not going to be enough to assure democratic victory and it shouldn’t be,” he said. “We have to offer to replace bad and weak leadership with creative leadership and vision...
...center left leader Romano Prodi, as what one center-left source called "winning loser." Having made up much ground in the polls in the final weeks, Berlusconi has reaffirmed his own party, Forza Italia, as the single largest political force in a Parliament likely to be led by a weak, vulnerable prime minister. "Berlusconi is about to lose the governmental powers," said the center-left official. "But as far as in purely political terms, he is very strong...