Word: weaknessness
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By appearing to be weak when challenged, Gate feels, the U.S. gained less than nothing. There is considerable evidence that if American tanks had knocked down the Wall as soon as it was started, it never would have been completed. Once Khrushchev saw that it could be erected with minimum...
For all that, Carter has exacerbated many of the difficulties he has faced. His most damaging weakness in his first two years has been a frequent indecisiveness, strangely accompanied by a failure to anticipate the effects of his actions. Some examples:
The Shah directly blames President Carter for the collapse of Iran. He told one high-ranking foreign visitor, TIME has learned, that he was appalled by Carter's statement that the U.S. no longer needs a policeman in the Persian Gulf. Although the President pledged the Shah undying brotherhood...
Lem's rationalists have a weakness for rationalizing. A man who considers himself a genius of the highest order also believes that such elite members of the race are never recognized. In another story Lem overloads the probability theory to suggest playfully that no one should exist. Each man...
Sports and weather are only the two most glaring beats whose coverage is profoundly colored by the prophet motive. Fashion news is primarily about things that have not yet happened, and the writer who dwelt on the reportable facts of the present would be viewed as quaint. The book reviewer...