Word: weaknessness
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And the same applies, apparently, to a punting team. The Harvard football team has taken advantage of its opponents' weakness up the middle to block four punts in the last two games, directly accounting for three of the Crimson's four touchdowns in that span.
The President and his men naturally downplayed the political damage. Bush told reporters that "these things come and go. The best thing, we get a budget deal, we get a good deal, and people will forget the name calling." But when a budget deal is passed, Bush may have little...
So far, the Bush Administration has not acknowledged the need for negotiations or exploratory talks, which might imply weakness or a willingness to reverse adamant public statements. Initiating peace talks is always difficult, as we remember from Korea and Vietnam. Only unconditional surrender following a total military victory can remove...
But as the mutiny on the budget proves, the House is not a home for such bipartisan blandness. That can be a strength, not a weakness. Public skirmishing over the budget stands as much of a chance of achieving a workable compromise as the back-door accord that was rejected...
At times the Sununu-Darman duet sounded discordant, but it was almost always planned. Their relationship had become the most powerful axis in the White House. Each gave the other what he lacked: Sununu provided Darman with access to Bush; Darman provided Sununu, a Washington neophyte, with a knowledge of...