Word: weaknessness
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For all the criticisms, Thatcher has been surging ahead in surveys that rank the rival party leaders by preference as "the best Prime Minister": she scores 48%, vs. 22% for Steel, 16% for Foot and 7% for Jenkins. Much of this, another poll notes, stems from the fact that Britons...
Afterward Reagan repeated his vow to veto the kind of tax increases, higher domestic-program funding and lower military-spending levels included in the Gorton compromise. At a White House staff meeting the next morning, the mood was somber, despite the attitude of detachment toward the Senate budget decisions. It...
Even the preparations for last week's May Day demonstrations showed the degree of Solidarity's weakness and confusion. A clandestine radio station, identifying itself as Radio Solidarity, called on Poles to stay home on May Day. "Smiles of pity from the windows," it said, should serve to...
Two glaring fallacies strike down this explanation. The first is the rather obvious weakness of the "tactical" vs. "strategic" concept when dealing with modern nuclear weapons in Europe. All of the weapons at the core of the current debate--572 yet-to-be-deployed American cruise and ballistic missiles, 243...
The 6 1/2-month-old bike lanes "haven't been as great a success as we would have liked." Marty Raymond, bicycle safety coordinator at the school's Department of Public Safety, said She cited lack of enforcement as the primary weakness in the "freeway" system.