Word: weaknessness
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Still, one shouldn't confuse Gates's apparent humility with weakness. He bristled when a reporter suggested that he had given the military a "blank check," saying directly that there was no such thing. He also gave a lengthy explanation of his support of U.S. Army Gen. George Casey to...
This helps explain why so many of the world's civil wars today are taking place in Africa. It's not that Africans have some inherent weakness for internecine war. It's just that African populations are more likely to be poor, reliant on commodity exports, ethnically divided, young and...
Daley's chances for retaining his post now seem as predictable as the wintry, gray skies over Lake Michigan this time of year. Here, in the largest U.S. city without mayoral term limits, Daley's fleeting weakness vanished almost overnight following the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives, when...
Whether insights into the mind's hall of mirrors will actually lead to a better understanding of autism is another question, of course, and it's only one of many that remain unanswered. But as a number of researchers see it, this is a strength rather than a weakness. For...
Economists and policymakers who will be attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, beginning Jan. 24 have been furiously debating whether the world has "decoupled" from the U.S. economy. The U.S. constitutes about 28% of global gross domestic product (GDP) as measured in dollars, and it accounted for one...