Word: weaknessness
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In return, Israel will be expected not to surprise the U.S. with unilateral military strikes. It will also be urged to use its influence with the Lebanese factions over which it has sway to persuade them to accept national reconciliation. In addition, the U.S. will want Israel to be more...
WITH ALL these tales to tell, there's no way the production could fail. The only weakness is that the stories rarely mesh, leaving each performance isolated. Director Patrick Bradford tries to combat the problem by casting the actors in one another's tales. But because the stories are so...
These tremors notwithstanding, Hong Kong's export industries are so strong that the colony has been able to reach a 6% growth rate. Chen forecast that expansion will slow to perhaps 4.5% next year. The weakness of Hong Kong's currency in the international exchange markets has fanned...
Women artists through the '40s and into the '50s in New York City were the victims of a sort of cultural apartheid, and the ruling assumptions about the inherent weakness, derivativeness and silly femininity of women painters were almost unbelievably phallocentric. Thus Peggy Guggenheim, the first major collector...
"Credulity," noted Charles Lamb, "is the man's weakness, but the child's strength." The sisters had no trouble convincing elders that they could converse with the spirits of Benjamin Franklin and John C. Calhoun. Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, endorsed their honesty; Leah Fish...