Word: weaknessness
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Strength and Weakness. The Nixon plan provides more radar equipment to detect incoming ICBMs and guide the defending missiles than did Johnson's. Since the first two installations will not be completed before 1973, the system could be canceled somewhere along the line-after having cost vast amounts of...
All health insurance plans aimed at the poor have a basic weakness: since all their money comes from the government, any cut off in the government fiscal supply will instantly kill the plan. In addition, the "poor-only" programs may become over-specialized.
But that kind of simplistic rationalization never comes up. The reason for the plan's economically-mixed clientele is far more subtle. All plans aimed entirely at the poor have a basic weakness: since all their money comes from the government, any cut off in the government fiscal supply will...
"We have not moved in a precipitate fashion," said the President, "but the fact that we have shown patience and forbearance should not be considered as a sign of weakness. We will not tolerate a continuation of a violation of an understanding. But, more than that, we will not tolerate...
The second thing bothering him was the unstated assumption that since everybody else had come with a confession to make, the boy must have one too. From the start, even though he had been quiet, he had felt the group's curiosity about him. They were confessing themselves, and they...