Word: weaker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Depression record-have failed this year. Hit hardest in the turmoil are savings banks and savings and loan associations. The number of these thrift institutions has dwindled from about 4,500 to 3,600 since 1980. The strongest survivors, like Buffalo-based Goldome, are rapidly expanding by absorbing their weaker competitors...
...denouement of sorts, without ever really engaging one's interest. She writes with constant reference to pundits both past and present, but without really linking her own criticisms and those she cites to form a coherent whole. A Columbia English professor, Hardwick is strongest with literary criticism, but weaker on popular issues. All too often she writes cryptically of popular media creations such as Billy Graham and, she suggests. Martin Luther King Jr. or rites of passage, such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, '40. The Oswald Family"), and the past two decades ("Domestic Manners"), without revealing anything more...
Sadly, this seems to be happening too much now in America: the weaker newspaper in a two-paper town shuts down. Then the stronger announces-before the body is even cold-that it will be expanding. More pages. More personnel (including, charitably, some off the stiff). And, more important, more color...
...game of the day was the Currier-Lowell House showdown, a contest that pitted the powerhouse Quadlings against the supposedly weaker 11 from Lowell...
...emotions, the 32 dancers move in groups as the music reaches crescendoes and in pairs as it softens. In large numbers the effect is both exuberant and mesmerizing as dancers leap and turn and stretch back and forth with technical precision. The piece could, in fact, probably survive with weaker technique, since the overall effect makes it difficult to concentrate on single movements. But the composition comes closer to perfection because of the clean, sharp and careful placement of each dancer...