Word: weaknessness
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The border war Vietnam is waging with Cambodia and China, and the friendship treaty signed Friday with the Soviet Union highlight the weakness of current U.S. policy. There is now no way short of invasion that the United States can pursue its interest in preserving the Southeast Asian status quo...
The officials cited David Edwards, a former employee of Citibank, who alleges that Citibank and other major banks capitalized on the dollar's weakness by selling dollars one day, then buying them back the following day after they declined in value.
This recognition of weakness in the structure sparked off the "Great Debate" over education, instigated by Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan two years ago. Central to many widespread demands are calls for greater emphasis on applied science and the production of engineers, technologists, etc., from the universities--which may seem...
Corporate policymakers, Simon asserts, are pressed to make decisions without enough accurate information to maximize profits. They settle for aiming at merely "satisfactory" profits, often with unexpected results. A key weakness in the haphazard process is that solutions that worked once may be tried over and over again in situations...
Many observers are reserving judgement on the Core until Harvard develops specific courses because they realize the strength or weakness of a liberal arts curriculum lies in the individual courses and not in broad guidelines. Choosing to reform courses and not guidelines, a Johns Hopkins Physics professor, Gordon Feldman, is...