Word: weakenesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political lineup will now pit the newly created Social and Liberal Democrats and Owen's breakaway party against the leftist Laborites and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives. Though the new parties hope to weaken the Conservatives' mandate, they could have precisely the opposite effect. By dividing an already weak opposition even further, they just might give Maggie Thatcher's Tories a real shot at governing England for the rest of the century...
...industry. Hit first by the oil bust, then a real estate collapse, Texas thrifts lost an estimated $5 billion last year. The salvage scheme proposed by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board will drastically reduce the number of independent Texas thrifts, from 281 to less than 180, by forcing % weak institutions into mergers with stronger ones. Cost of the plan: more than $7 billion over several years. At least $1 billion is expected to come from private investors who want to buy a piece of the thrifts at bargain prices...
Despite shooting a weak 34 percent from the field, Penn outrebounded the Crimson on the offensive boards, 14-4, to come away with a 34-31 halftime lead...
Bush, who trailed Robertson by 6 percent in a weak third place, will not be the only one to suffer from Robertson's strong showing. Dole will now have to square off with a candidate who commands the loyalty of zealous extremists from the Republican far Right...
Andromache lives only for her child and the memory of her husband, and of all the passions avowed in the opening scenes, only hers is steadfast. As portrayed by Suzman, Andromache's immersion in the past is not weak or dreamy but sexy and compelling. In the end, the enslaved queen rules over the city, and her son has been declared the rightful future king of Troy. The fickle, feckless others have been destroyed by their excesses: Pyrrhus murdered, Hermione a suicide, Orestes driven mad. Ultimately the production's shortcomings are not important. Racine, Miller and Set Designer Richard Hudson...