Word: weaknessness
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If the standoff with North Korea worsens over the next few weeks, Bill Clinton will be facing the biggest crisis of his presidency, the kind of crisis, in fact, that he so far has shown little aptitude for handling well. After 18 months of Clinton's vacillation and weakness toward...
Washington has office softball leagues, just like a normal city. Though the players may have an obsessive interest in GATT, land reclamation and the like, their team names betray a weakness for bad (occasionally vulgar) puns that is common to many Americans:
In addition, an inability to win close games is a legitimate weakness in itself, a failure owing to a lack mental toughness or perhaps just a lack of confidence. This year's team was susceptible to both.
Clinton's most conspicuous congressional setback included the probable loss of his chief House dealmaker on health care, Dan Rostenkowski. The Ways and Means Committee chairman spent the week deciding whether to plead guilty to a felony charge or face a criminal indictment on charges that he abused the perks...
With the future so uncertain, there was little jubilation in the territories. "We will be starting off with difficulties in all fields," said Sobhi Terhy, a carpenter in Gaza City. Throughout the Gaza Strip and Jericho, the Palestinian flags that first went up last September were faded and worn. But...