However, something is amiss, when, in the service of advocating a particular policy, activists and health authorities have to base their claims on a weak body of evidence and ignore a much stronger and more rigorous body of painstakingly accumulated data, which helps put the matter in perspective.
This is a major drawback because sticking with a weak mix of funds for a year in a downbeat market is a recipe for disaster.
Two teams of engineers, one funded by the state of Louisiana and one based at the University of California, Berkley, have previously put the blame on the Army Corps of Engineers and on a weak layer of ground below the canal walls.
Pretty impressive, especially given the backdrop of a weak economy full of dispirited consumers staying at home, spending nothing and paying off debt.
The unfortunate bailouts of profligate homeowners were to a high degree a symptom of a weak dollar that made housing so initially attractive to begin with.
Chancellor's Schroeder's remarks also suggested "a potentially dangerous divergence" between those who stress "the benefits of a weak euro in stimulating exports and job growth", and the European Central Bank, "which fears the inflationary consequences of a weak currency", the paper says.
Better a strong weak agreement that has a good chance of being honoured than a weak strong agreement that is likely to collapse.
And unlike the Rays, the Phils haven't "benefited" from a long string of weak seasons that result in a host of top draft picks.
There is but one precedent for a strong prime minister and a weak head of state.
The decline in exports and imports is a sign of a weak or weakening world economy.
The report says that underground, just outside the canal in people's backyards, there lurked a weak layer of clay.
Confidence fell sharply in March, coinciding with a weak month of job creation.
Having a high-school diploma or university degree is a weak indicator of whether one has skills that increase productive capacity.
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Working with his students, Butz twice soaked the samples in a weak solution of hydrochloric acid to remove any contemporary soot stains.
In fact, the past is only a weak indicator of future results.
Quijada would endorse a weak version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and the conlanging community includes some of the last true believers in a strong version.
Italian bond yields climbed following a weak auction of short-term bills.
This is a weak test of trade diversion.
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"One of the concerns of an attack like this is that the attacker is using a relatively weak botnet of home PCs in order to build a much larger botnet of beefy servers in preparation for a future attack, " he wrote in a blog post.
"Typically from about March to the end of July is a seasonally weak time of year for gold, " said Haytham Hodaly, senior precious metals analyst at Salman Partners.
In other words, FireEye starts with a bunch of weak signals that could or could not be pre-cursors of a problem.
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Though still low, in the euro area it is inching upwards, perhaps because of a weak euro, or because of higher oil prices.
Economic stimulus creates an appearance of stability and growth, but a lot of it is teetering on a very weak foundation of government intervention.
Although Italy had problems, including a revival of the Mafia and a merry-go-round of weak governments, 50 years of rapid growth have made it a rich country.
The cereal index, which hit its highest level since 2008, was the focus of the report, as the FAO estimated that a tightening market on the back of a weak year for cereal production in 2010 will put additional pressure on prices.
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With the all-important non-farm payrolls number coming on Friday, economists have been forced to cut their forecasts in anticipation of what could be a very weak jobs report on top of a very slow first quarter takes its toll on the economy.
This has indicated that fewer and fewer stocks were pushing the stock market to new highs and was a sign of a technically weak market.
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