Word: weakenesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they might expect from the press. Now Lee told her husband she was afraid that he might be hurt badly, but in the end she could not be the one to stand in his way. Both their children wanted him to get back in. They felt he had looked weak by withdrawing. By the end of the weekend the decision was made...
...vaulting into second place behind Dukakis in New Hampshire. Yet in the looking-glass world of political expectations, Hart's presence may actually help Dukakis if the Governor can still win in New Hampshire. Such a victory would have been discounted if Dukakis had faced only the pre-existing weak field. But if he knocks off Hart, Dukakis would begin to look more like a real giant...
...fall of the dollar, which has declined by 40% against the major currencies since early 1985, has not produced a turnaround in the trade balance. According to economic theory, a cheaper dollar makes U.S. products less expensive to foreigners and thus eventually boosts demand for American exports. Conversely, a weak dollar makes foreign goods more costly in the U.S. and dampens Americans' enthusiasm for imports. That, in fact, is what has happened: this year exports have increased, and the growth of imports has slowed sharply. The problem is that with the dollar continuing to drop precipitously, the cost...
...last for a month and enough promised in the international aid pipeline to nourish the country through April. While thousands of peasants have been temporarily uprooted from their villages, they have learned the lesson of 1984-85 and have gone in search of food before they are too weak to travel. U.N. officials say that for the moment there are no permanent feeding camps, where more died of rampant infectious disease than of hunger the last time around. Those who gather at Wukro go back to their villages after receiving a month's supply of food, then return...
...banner headlines in the English press trumpeted the Crockford's affair, Runcie offered no response to the attack. Senior ecclesiastics instantly rushed to the primate's defense, observing that he had been anything but weak in criticizing Margaret Thatcher's treatment of the poor. The essay was excoriated as an exercise of "anonymous, gutless malice" by one furious bishop. "Scurrilous," snapped the realm's No. 2 churchman, Archbishop of York John Habgood. York had his own reason to complain: he and Runcie were yoked in condemnation by Crockford's. In fact, the essay was seen as a bid to derail...