But the U.S. typically has been weak in Winter Olympics staples like ski jumping and cross-country skiing.
Anne Stanback, a gay marriage advocate, says interest in civil unions has been weak in Connecticut.
Much of the selling pressure in gold this week has been weak long liquidation.
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But given the prevailing conditions in the natural gas market, price realization has been weak.
At the same time government procurement, which is the mainstay of imported brands, has been weak.
It is at least 1% below its potential and, on average, has been weak for 25 years.
Even worse, the reaction from the rest of the EU has been weak, as it was with Hungary.
Productivity has been low because growth has been weak but employment growth relatively strong, at least until recently.
But developers have had little incentive to build since then, because rent growth has been weak and population growth flat.
Con-way noted that the peak trucking season, which comes ahead of the U.S. holiday retail sales season, has been weak.
Con-way said that the peak trucking season, which comes ahead of the U.S. holiday retail sales season, has been weak.
The property market in Scotland has been weak since 2009, but Edinburgh has been the most resilient in the country.
According to a report by 21st Century Business Herald, lending by the big four banks has been weak this month.
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But the U.S. currency has been weak agains the peso, trading at 10.28 during the day, the lowest level since 2003.
The young untested euro has been weak against not only the dollar and the pound but, more recently, the yen too.
Demand has been weak enough that POT was forced to lay off workers and temporarily shutter its Rocanville and Lanigan mines.
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But the link between the British and German cycles has been weak.
And, if acquired, Billabong would be another such situation as its financial performance has been weak in recent years leading to management turnover.
The dollar has been weak against other major currencies over the past few years, but the peso is one that hasn't strengthened against it.
Amid the credit-boom phase of the present business cycle, the Japanese yen has been weak across the board, and is 25% undervalued against the dollar.
Since the dollar has been weak recently, gold prices are up.
And the PC market has been weak lately, reflecting difficult economic conditions across the globe, delayed spending in emerging markets, and a shift toward smartphones and tablets.
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The company's stock has been weak since many investors feared that the deal would fall through or get repriced in the wake of the global credit crunch.
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.
It is true that consumption has fallen as a share of GDP, but that is because investment and exports have grown even faster, not because spending has been weak.
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Although the economy has been weak for much of Mr Cardoso's second term, the president remained popular, for having tamed Brazil's chronic inflation and for bringing stability to its democracy.
Obama has been weak in his support of Israel.
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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.
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.
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