Word: weaknessness
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The pressure to grasp for the nomination began to grow in mid-July, he explains, when Senate colleagues, fearful that Carter's political weakness would damage their own campaigns for reelection, began urging him to run. "During the month of August," Kennedy said of the recent recess, "I had...
The weakness of the I.R.A's own policy was apparent from its statement claiming responsibility for Mountbatten's murder; the language constituted a veiled admission that the almost daily round of violence in Northern Ireland has made little headway on British public opinion, despite nearly 2,000 dead...
A main reason is the renewed weakness of the dollar. At the cartel's June meeting, which lifted average crude costs by 42%, to about $20 per bbl., even so-called moderate members warned that a 5% drop in the dollar's value could easily provoke another round...
Adept at posing the unconventional question that gets to the crux of an issue, Donovan is equally intrigued by and perceptive about events at home and abroad. In recent speeches he has expressed his pride in America's past and, despite present problems, his optimism about the future. "One...
But to make headway against these problems, the President realized he also must start overcoming his chief political weakness, his reputation for hesitancy and indecision. Two weeks ago, returning from the Tokyo summit to a nation exasperated by a siege of gas lines, he compounded his difficulties by first scheduling...