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...fooled around with the shot put and the javelin in high school, so the only event he needed to master was the high hurdles, still his weakest event...
...industrywide production sputtering along at a mere 29% of capacity, the plight of the nation's steelmakers is truly ghastly. During 1982, losses for the industry as a whole reached a record $2.5 billion, and though no major steel producer currently faces imminent bankruptcy, some analysts give the weakest of them, including such venerable giants as National Steel (1981 sales: $4.0 billion), and Republic Steel (1981 sales: $4.3 billion) as few as six to eight calendar quarters before they run out of money...
...rising budget pressures. Earlier this month neo-Gaullist Deputy Pierre Messmer, a former Defense Minister under Charles de Gaulle, led a censure motion against the Mitterrand government's defense policy in the National Assembly. Messmer attacked the "mere 15%" of public spending devoted to the military as "the weakest figure since the second World War." The Socialists used their majority to defeat the motion, but in the Assembly debate Mauroy had to concede that possible changes in manpower levels were indeed being considered...
Sharon's claim that he and his colleagues could not anticipate the ensuing slaughter was perhaps his weakest argument. Many Israelis knew that the hatred between Lebanese Christians and Palestinians had led to atrocities in the past...
...injury could also make adjuster Louis Varsames a spectator this afternoon. Without him, Harvard's defensive secondary will be at its weakest, but fortunately, Pickett seldom has quarterback Dean Pecevich throw anything but short laterals...