Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the poor shooting, defensive rebounding was Harvard's other big problem. The Crimson allowed 18 Black Bear offensive rebounds, most of which ended up in Harvard's basket. The Crimson's new defensive setup seemed to be the culprit behind this weak spot...
...possible that I overlooked some of his other works. After all, the Reader's Guide doesn't index Penthouse, and the Harvard library system is notoriously weak on smut...
Like other department-store chains, B. Altman has been hurt by weak retail sales and tough competition from specialty outlets. Several other chains are for sale by their foreign owners: Canada's Campeau is trying to unload Bloomingdale's, while Britain's B.A.T Industries has put Saks Fifth Avenue and Marshall Field's on the block. However, Altman's problems went deeper, in part because it had acquired a dowdy, passe image. The company might have been turned around by the right owner, but Herscu, saddled with $1.5 billion in debts, had neither the cash nor the vision to pull...
...Rica, which discarded its military in 1949. In Switzerland any such development would change the fabric of the nation, given the unique and even mythic status the army enjoys. For a country that has so many fault lines involving competing religions and languages and a federal government that is weak by design, the army is that rare thing, a truly national institution. The experience of military service is the most common denominator among Swiss men (women are not conscripted), and creates a strong sense of citizenship...
...decade -- the moral shift in American diplomatic thinking away from collaborating with authoritarian allies to standing with democracy. Last week, when it came to a choice between a military putsch that might have brought a vicious but strategic stability to the Philippines and a woman who headed the weak but nevertheless legitimate government of the country, Washington chose Aquino...