Word: weaknessness
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POLITICAL WEAKNESS. Although unions did much to elect a Democratic President and Democratic Congress, labor has suffered shattering legislative setbacks. Last year the common-situs bill that would have allowed a single striking union to shut an entire construction site went down to a totally unexpected defeat in the House...
The weakness of the Republicans surprises a number of political analysts who cite the historical pattern of midterm gains by the party that does not control the White House. Actually, however, the big off-year gains by the opposition party have generally been made during the incumbent President's...
The trouble is that anyone waiting for rationality in the foreign-exchange and gold markets may have to wait a very long time. Last week's trading was an example: though there was no special news to drive the dollar down, it sank to record lows against the yen...
In the evenings after supper I hate him least, when the rheum in his blind eyes looks less like weakness, an impassive twilight severity in his backbone. He sits alone as I am alone, feeling the heat of the sand warm the sun-fallen air.
Many of the explanations for the dollar's dive were depressingly familiar: the continuing weakness of the nation's trade balance, lack of progress in Congress on an energy bill, persistent rumors that petroleum-exporting nations might be planning to stop pricing their oil in dollars and switch to a...