Word: weaknessness
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One more point about Gorbachev. I compare him to Khrushchev. Khrushchev was not well educated, but he was smarter than Gorbachev and quicker than Gorbachev. But Khrushchev had a fatal weakness. He was rash. Gorbachev is not rash, but he does have a temper.
Suddenly Japan is caught in a powerful downdraft of pessimism. A vexing combination of tightening financial conditions, trade tension with the U.S. and political weakness at the top has sent Tokyo's financial markets into a funk. The slide is threatening to choke the country's economic growth and sap...
A. I am skeptical about a lopsided monetary union. It will expose our weakness and lead to grave social consequences. It would be like a ship with its cargo shifted to one side, out of balance and not able to float properly. West Germany seems to be offering a lot...
Junk bonds proved to be the ideal weapon for exploiting a weakness in corporate America that raiders were quick to detect. They saw that the stock market valued many large companies at prices well below what their assets would fetch if the companies were bought and broken up. By using...
Now investors are watching carefully for signs of weakness in the ultimate deal: the 1988 buyout of RJR Nabisco, which Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, headed by Henry Kravis, acquired for $25 billion. The battle for RJR combined all the excesses of the era, pitting Milken and Kravis against Cohen and F...