Word: weaknessness
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The ax just keeps falling on the beleaguered American worker. In a new round of layoffs that underscored the weakness of the economy last week, three major oil companies announced painful business restructurings. Amoco said it will cut 8,500 jobs, or nearly 16% of its work force, as it...
McCullough's main weakness is one he shares with Truman: he occasionally fails to wrestle with the moral complexities of policy. Truman took justifiable pride in his feel for right and wrong, but he was an unreflective man at times, a proudly untroubled non-Hamlet.
One such episode overlapped the MacArthur phenomenon and went deeper than it did. Senator Joseph McCarthy has become something of an evil joke when seen in retrospect. But he stood high in the polls for longer periods than MacArthur did. Even at the end of Eisenhower's first year in...
GEORGE BUSH HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN UPBEAT, WHISTLE-WHILE-you-work, stay-the-course kind of guy. Yet top aides to the President say he is depressed about his political position, running behind Ross Perot in nationwide opinion surveys, and despondent that his "loyal" advisers are bad-mouthing him to...
"If you're up 0-2 in the count, throw an outside pitch," he advises. "If you miss outside, it's not a big deal. But I don't like to go after a guy's weakness a lot if it's not the pitch I'm comfortable thowing on...