Word: weaknessness
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The transplanted Texan's single-minded focus on the politics of problems is both a strength and a weakness. Baker, 52, readily concedes that he is not expert on most domestic programs and policy issues and relies heavily on his top aide, Richard Darman, for help on such matters...
Once a Democrat-he became a Republican in 1970-Baker has long been anathema to the far right. Often conservatives have tried to persuade Reagan to drop Baker. "Jim is a reasonable person who sits down with the opposition and works things out," complains Richard Viguerie, the right's...
This is, after all, the University where a dean, in his annual report, once quoted the Chinese Curse of Doom, "May you live in an age of transition." Transition--and open, intellectual debate on even the most time-honored of policies--are signs of health and adaptability, not weakness. Until...
In anything, Swann and his modern gadgetry seem impotent in the West. His motorcycle offers him no protection from the bandits' six-shooters, and Swann himself carries no modern firearms. Consequently, none of the other characters in the movie seems too impressed by him. Perhaps the weakness of the plot...
As "conductor for life" of the fabled Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, 74, long ago grew accustomed to governing his orchestra with an autocratic hauteur that was seldom challenged. So the conductor expected no back-chair back talk when he named Sabine Meyer, 23, as the new solo clarinetist, and...