Anne Stanback, a gay marriage advocate, says interest in civil unions has been weak in Connecticut.
In fact, standard domestic beer has been the weak spot in the sector, with experts noting a 50% sales drop between 2007 and 2010.
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India's hiring and firing laws also explain why the growth in manufacturing has been weak compared with the boom in services, which are not covered by the same rules.
But the U.S. typically has been weak in Winter Olympics staples like ski jumping and cross-country skiing.
And, if acquired, Billabong would be another such situation as its financial performance has been weak in recent years leading to management turnover.
Obama has been weak in his support of Israel.
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Industrial usage (for goods manufacturing out of wood as well as pallets and crating) has been weak in the past few months but is likely to show a mild rebound in 2013.
The property market in Scotland has been weak since 2009, but Edinburgh has been the most resilient in the country.
Given the low interest rate environment in the U.S., the U.S. dollar has been weak against other foreign currencies in recent years, which, in addition to the other factors previously discussed, has helped fuel a rise in the price of gold since the great market meltdown of 2008.
In what has been a relatively weak earnings season, DuPont revealed an awful third quarter on Tuesday.
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The presumption that what is good for exports is good for the economy partly explains why consumer spending in Germany has historically been weak.
The sponsorship market has been slow in recent years with the weak economy, but elite tennis players are an attractive bunch to pitch products for companies.
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Consumption, which accounts for about two-thirds of U.S. GDP, rose in July, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, suggesting a pickup in activity that could be fundamental in supporting what has been a weak economic recovery.
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Ms Harney recently took delivery of a new report on enterprise strategy by a committee chaired by Eoin O'Driscoll, managing director of Aderra, which argues not only for more emphasis on high-value-added sectors and scientific research but also for greater efforts in marketing and promotion, in which Ireland has been weak.
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Much of the selling pressure in gold this week has been weak long liquidation.
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But that, too, has been disappointing in recent months, constrained by weak job creation and paltry wage increases.
The initial impetus for the link-ups has been the weak performance of bank shares in the UK in the past year.
Robust demand for U.K.-based Jaguar Land Rover's vehicles worldwide has been offsetting its parent's weak sales in India.
The government's plan to curb car use by raising fuel duties by at least 5% in real terms annually has been undermined by weak oil prices.
For all that the US recovery is seen in the US as too weak, one of the reasons it has been stronger than Britain's is that Americans can in effect borrow from investors, rather than banks, in a way that does not happen here.
With an eye on a possible White House run in 2016, Rubio, a tea party favorite, has been careful not to appear weak on border security or create political problems among the conservatives who have great sway in picking the GOP's nominee.
Laimbeer pointed to both Ford and Bone as players who will improve New York's rebounding, which has been one of the team's weak points in recent years.
For example, one of the weak spots in our economy has been in the area of state and local government, where budget constraints have forced decisions upon officials in states and localities to lay off teachers, to lay off firefighters and police officers.
With wages weak, the result has been a squeeze in real incomes.
He says the sector has been hurt buy weak flat-panel TV demand, especially in China.
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But given the prevailing conditions in the natural gas market, price realization has been weak.
The dumbest, most destructive economic policy of the Bush Administration has been its weak-dollar position--letting the dollar slide in value against the euro, the yen, the pound and gold.
China's big state-controlled banks were among the largest initial public offerings in the world when they listed in recent years, but their recent stock performance has been weak, as investors worry that they are carrying bad debts on their books.
Most recently it has been eyeing the American steel market in the hope of taking advantage of the weak dollar.
The MLP has been somewhat hurt this year by weak gas and NGL prices, resulting in flat distributions for the past two quarters.
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