Word: weaknessness
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In the face of declining demand, some OPEC prices have been tumbling. Members like Nigeria and Libya, which last January were demanding $40 and more for a barrel of their precious product, have been forced to cut rates in an effort to unload their crude. Nigeria slashed its prices twice...
The activity is contentious and acute. To an editor: "When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split." On James M. Cain (Double Indemnity): "Every thing he writes smells like a billy goat." On Somerset Maugham: His gift "belongs to the great judge...
Cash's strength is getting himself to a spot where he can make the right block--a skill equivalent to a receiver running his patterns well. If he has a weakness it is pass blocking, where size, and not speed, is of primary importance.
That so many Americans should be transforming their features, and futures, to compete for jobs and mates is a dramatic development after postwar rich living and the automobile had all but taken the country's breath (and legs) away. But America always had a weakness for do-it-yourself...
The new play is admittedly fascinating--much better than Richard III but in nearly the same genre. A clever, amoral officer is passed over a for a promotion and rages impotently against his superior (a foreigner at that!). Then he stymbles onto the great man,s weakness: a touchingly intense...