Word: weakness
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...book benefits from Patten's sure familiarity with the places he's writing about, and his asides - the "weak handshake" of a Sri Lankan rebel leader, the taste he shares with Helmut Kohl for the products of Chinese brewer Qingdao -set it apart from more academic works. Part history, part opinionated guidebook, What Next? should hold up for a few years...
...The’ HBS turkey.” Fredrickson noted his disapproval of students who wanted to remove the turkey from the campus grounds, and expressed hope that turkeys would populate the Business School campus in future years. “I think those students are weak and will eventually be weeded out by natural selection,” Fredrickson joked. “I hadn’t heard of this effort to have the turkey removed. In response, I am thinking I will start raising money to support the breeding of the turkeys, so that future generations...
...decline of selected financial firms’ stocks, known in finance as “short-selling,” is now banned in the United States and Britain. According to South China Morning Post, Chinese banks were recently told to suspend lending to U.S. financial institutions. The weak dollar caused import prices to surge by 20 percent from last year, which should have helped local enterprises; it has provided an advantage to some businesses but it also increased prices for most American consumers...
...save for a few, nothing stands out. It’s when compared with the rest of Kings of Leon’s corpus that “Night” really falls short. It’s like getting Southern Comfort when you ordered Moonshine—sugary, weak, and not at all what you were hoping for. Other than “Sex on Fire,” there are relatively few songs that really grab your attention (unless you count the slightly disturbing grunts featured in “Notion”). So to those hipster kids...
...think we should just let the banks fail? You don't think it was under-regulated, free-market capitalism that got us here? In a free market, these weak banks wouldn't be around. Pushing home ownership and low interest rates irrespective of risk is what got us into this problem. Not everybody can afford a house. Maybe it's worth it to loan money to people who can't afford to borrow it so they can live in a house. I don't know. I'm just saying that the consequences of it are that you're going...