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...quality of NATO's components has begun to waver more erratically than ever. The Italian army is moderately well trained, and could probably defend its own country against attack as long as the U.S. Sixth Fleet controls the Mediterranean. The French army, in contrast, may be the weakest of NATO's major links...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Paperkrieg in an Era of Peace | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

There's a lot of guitar here and on the rest of the album, more so than on any previous Traffic albums, yet Winwood still seems unsure of his guitar playing--I've always thought it the weakest of the instruments he plays--because his wah-wah lead is way back in the song's mix. Chris Wood appears only once, with a skirling flute phrase and then fades into the background during the song's overlong one-riff finale...

Author: By Freddy Boyd, | Title: Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory | 2/24/1973 | See Source »

...steel-seizure case. Jackson maintained that the President is on strongest constitutional ground when his action is consistent with the explicit direction of a congressional statute; he has less authority when he takes action in an area where Congress has not made known its wishes; he is weakest of all when he acts in opposition to a congressional statute. By impounding so liberally, Nixon obviously falls into Category...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Issue of Impounding | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...special attempt should be made to improve the freshman year. Efforts to enrich and improve the curriculum arise most naturally from the interests of professors and the concerns expressed by students. Both these forces tend to be weakest in the freshman year. Students do not become actively interested in the curriculum until they are sopomores or juniors. Faculty members naturally take greater interest in work of a more advanced nature, a process easily observed through the decline of Faculty involvement in freshman courses and the increasing reliance in these courses on the use of sections taught by graduate students. These...

Author: By Derek C. Bok, | Title: Clearing the Blurs in Education | 2/6/1973 | See Source »

...harvest the rest of their crops. The frenzied trading and rising prices in the Chicago "pits" add to the problems of Nixon's economic planners. They have sternly resisted the idea of putting raw agricultural prices under control, but they know too well that food costs are the weakest point of the Phase II program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Costly Rains | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

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