Word: weaknessness
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Walton should know. She was the spark that ignited the Crimson in the second half. A defender who played attack last year, the Mather sophomore was moved behind the net to exploit the defensive weakness of the Eagle attackers.
Clinton's greatest strength in Chicago is among blacks. "He talks to our concerns," says Alderman Bobby Rush. "Tsongas is too detached, too ivory tower." What ethnic whites see as weakness is viewed as almost charming by some blacks. "Life is life," says Charliemae Towbridge, who heads the Chicago police...
Even now, at the height of Tsongas popularity, his own aides acknowledge that the campaign is struggling for stability. In Florida, Tsongas best hope for a Southern upset, he has found it difficult to strike back at his opponents attacks. Bush would exploit this weakness mercilessly. He did in 1988...
Steinem: I don't want to sound like a complaining author, but there is a chasm between the important reviews and the popular response. What I wrote as a strengthening of self-authority, some reviewers called weakness -- even a retreat from activism. At first, I was very hurt, but then...
A more serious example of weakness was evident during the President's State of the Union address. By most accounts, Bush believes the best economic policy is to leave matters alone. But he sees that course as politically untenable, and so larded his speech with a series of halfhearted palliatives...