Word: weak
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Defeating Alito seems unlikely. The best Dems can hope to do, the aide says, is highlight wedge issues that can be used against weak Republicans in November. Still, the liberal lobby is talking tough. "We've just begun to fight," says Ralph Neas of People for the American...
...have to take advantage of our opportunities on the power play,” she added. “They’re very skilled, very quick, so [we will try] to exploit a situation when they’re weak...
...WORLD ? Pluto ? Charon ? If humans lived by Pluto time, they would never see a second birthday. The planet orbits the sun once every 248 Earth years ? And if humans lived on Pluto, they wouldn't have to diet. Pluto's gravity is so weak that a man weighing 300 lbs. (136 kg) on Earth would weigh just 20 lbs. (9 kg) on Pluto ? Unfortunately, breathing would be impossible. In addition to being intolerably cold, Pluto has a thin?and temporary?atmosphere of nitrogen molecules, with traces of carbon monoxide and methane. When the planet moves...
...many ways, gold lust is a relic of the bad old India?an India of weak investor rights and shaky financial systems, where people distrusted banks and the stock market and preferred to store their wealth in tangible assets, chiefly gold and property. The recent economic boom has given Indians a range of sophisticated and relatively secure financial instruments: mutual funds, stocks, bonds, even abstract art. Richer Indians are, indeed, diversifying their investments. "At the top end of society, yes, [gold] consumption is beginning to decrease," says K. Shivram, a vice president of the World Gold Council in Madras...
...Gravity is so strongly peaked near the brane that gravity doesn’t leak away,” Randall says. “If you are anywhere except the brane where gravity is concentrated, you would see gravity as very weak...