Word: weakest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...horrendous plight of the thrift institutions -- or rather of the one-quarter or so of the industry that is foundering by normal accounting standards. Last year the profits of all U.S. thrifts totaled $895 million, down from $3.85 billion in 1985. A year ago the 370 or so weakest institutions were hemorrhaging at the rate of $2.2 billion a year. Now those losses are running closer to an estimated $3.8 billion annually...
...weakest parts of the collection are diffused by sociology and demographic shorthand: a smoothly flowing resume substituting for characterization; the itemized contents of a lost wallet, including credit cards, club memberships and photographs, heavily making the point that the seat of the owner's identity is his hip pocket. A story that begins "Though I was between marriages for several years, in a disarray that preoccupied me completely, other people continued to live and to die" sends the eye skidding down the page in search of traction...
...this point some Catholic theologians question the Instruction. Notable among them is Jesuit Father Richard McCormick of the University of Notre Dame, who thinks the in vitro passage is the "weakest part" of the entire statement. In his view "the child should be the product of a loving act. That doesn't necessarily translate as a result of an act of sexual intercourse." McCormick agrees that the "unitive" and "procreative" spheres need not be combined in every act of a married couple...
...there a cover-up? In perhaps its weakest section, the report notes that North, "either on his own or at the behest of others, actively sought to conceal important information" after the scandal became known. He produced a chronology of Iranscam events that "had many inaccuracies." McFarlane is faulted for helping Poindexter, North and other NSC staffers produce a dozen versions of this chronology, which the former National Security Adviser admitted "did not present a full and completely accurate account." The board reported that it could not confirm whether North had shredded documents relevant to the investigations under...
...play's main strength is its fast-paced verbal virtuosity, then its drawback is the lack of substance beneath the glibness. The Day Room wants to be a serious play done humorously, but it is the humor that ultimately dominates weakest moments occur when the characters are forced to face the logical ramifications of their illogical world. Had DeLillo taken his own contrivances less seriously, the audience would be spared monologues on such silly questions as: what if the world is just a figment of one's imagination? It is a child's question, as DeLillo admits; but then...