Favorable economic news, and the reaction to it, has been fairly weak at best.

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But luckily for patients and drug companies alike, the data supporting a link between the impotence drug and a loss of sight are weak at best.

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Without this natural capital maintained, and restored where it has been lost or degraded, our prospects for long-term economic development are weak at best, and likely doomed to failure.

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Still, that leaves a roughly 280, 000 increase in the number of people working full-time for a private sector employer during the past two years, when the economy has been weak, at best.

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Rio Ferdinand then had to be alert to deflect a Danny cross narrowly past the post, while at the other end a weak Carlos Tevez shot on 19 minutes was the best United could muster.

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