Word: weaknessness
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The scene was a crowd stopper: a man in Pope's raiment was kissing a pretty young girl. But it was only Actor Anthony Quinn, 51, dressed as the fictional Pope Kiril I in the movie version of The Shoes of the Fisherman, bestowing a paternal peck on Daughter...
Professor Handlin's remarks to the effect that intellectual traditions had a way of developing over time, and that such developments at Harvard and in American universities had led in a distinctly non-Marxist (not to say anti-Marxist) direction were more to the point. For it was precisely a...
Recognizing the present weakness at all levels of government--state and local as well as legislative and judiciary, Bundy concentrated on inadequacies in the Federal Executive.
"The simplest demonstration of weakness in the Executive Branch," Bundy said, "is its subordination to Congress in matters of appropriation and taxation." He cited the present impasse over the tax increase as a case of Congress frustrating the Executive.
Two other weakness of the Executive Branch, Bundy added, are "under-representation of the public interest" and lack of interconnection between parties legitimately involved.