Word: weaknessness
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In a near monotone, he continued: "As far back as we can look-until the light of history fades into the dusk of legend-such aspirations of man have been submerged and swallowed by the violence and the weakness of man at his worst. Generations have tried and failed. Will...
∙ WEST GERMANY. No end of the ten-year boom is in sight. Fueled by tax cuts, high investment and consumer spending, German prosperity bolsters the rest of the Common Market. One weakness: labor shortages are inhibiting industrial growth.
"Indeed," said Martin, in a speech to a Columbia University alumni luncheon, "we find disquieting similarities between our present prosperity and the fabulous '20s." Then he listed a dozen similar ities, including virtually uninterrupted progress for seven years, a large in crease in private debt, a continuous growth in...
"The Only Kind." Shortly after he arrived there, he defined his approach to his job in unmistakable terms: "Nowadays indirectness is a weakness, not a strength. Nowadays he who indulges in false phrases is discredited, and he who indulges in expressions of genuine good will must prove it in his...
PUBLIC OPINION, said Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, "is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs." If Peel had such low regard for public opinion, it is easy to imagine how he would have felt about "world opinion." He would have denied that...