Word: weak
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...serve and a good all-court game, and he definitely put those strengths to work.” Mangham teamed with junior Michael Hayes to sweep their three doubles matches, taking two of the three with ease. Despite generally strong play, Kalfayan’s record was marred by weak performances in his supertiebreakers. Though he won four of the six singles sets he played, slow starts in two supertiebreakers resulted in a 2-1 singles record. Kalfayan posted a matching record in doubles, playing alongside freshman Alistair Felton. “As a team, we need to get better...
...challenges similar to Japan's during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. In South Korea, for example, the government bought bad loans from banks and also injected government money into their balance sheets. Several banks were nationalized. Governments across the region also shut down financial institutions deemed too weak to survive or warrant a government bailout. In August 1997 Thailand closed 42 finance companies. Indonesia closed 16 banks in October 1997, and Korea closed 14 merchant banks that December, according to Merrill Lynch. This separating the wheat from the chaff helped to speed economic recovery because it made clear...
...acquisition of nuclear weapons does not embolden weak countries, a Kennedy School Research Fellow told dozens at a brown-bag seminar yesterday...
...Negeen Pegahi, a Political Science graduate student at the University of Chicago and a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, presented her dissertation work on the role of nuclear weapons in weak countries’ foreign policies...
...used the comic book sailor Popeye as an analogy for the issues. Popeye is initially weak in comparison to his adversaries, but after eating spinach, he becomes bolder and can face off against his opponents...