Word: weak
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...physical punishment from teachers fell by 42% between 1994 and 2004. During that same period, the percentage of American educators claiming they'd be verbally or physically abused by students halved, from 13% to 7%. That data is difficult for French supporters of the rod to dismiss as more weak-willed American PC - suggesting as it does that clashes in classrooms generally decrease when both sides show a willingness to give one another a break, rather than a whack...
...billion by the end of the year, the Government Accountability Office reported. And yet, of the $67 billion the Iraqi government spent from 2005 to 2007, just 1% went toward infrastructure projects. Senators Carl Levin and John Warner, who requested the report, expressed outrage at Iraq's weak spending record; U.S. taxpayers have spent $48 billion on Iraq reconstruction...
...living faith calls us as well to care for the most vulnerable members of society. The poor, the hungry, the stranger seeking shelter and the child waiting to be born - all are in need of our compassion and protection. Faith shows us that the weak and defenseless are not a problem but rather a priority, and a chance for us to live out the message of the Gospels...
...true that the Iraqi government is spending little on reconstruction," says Ayad Al-Samariee, the head of the finance committee in the Iraqi parliament. "The weak Iraqi capability to do big projects, maybe at the end of 2008, will improve...
Washington is another question. American administrations have traditionally favored military strongmen over weak civilian governments. President Bush has routinely praised Musharraf in almost effusive terms and maintained complicit silence over his sacking of the judiciary last year. And with renewed anxiety over militancy in the tribal badlands, and disappointment with the civilian leaders' failure to tame it, the Bush administration may wish to hang onto the man it once termed its "most allied ally...