Third, the employment picture is still quite weak, with unemployment around 10% and underemployment close to 17%.
"The numbers turned out quite weak, " said Takeshi Minami from the Norinchukin Research Institute in Tokyo.
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The seasonal pattern is for the euro to decline in January, and technically it looks quite weak.
Second, these novel privilege claims were quite weak as a matter of law.
But those are fairly - some would say - quite weak sanctions.
But the most likely outcome is an economy not quite weak enough and a crisis not quite large enough to galvanise spineless politicians.
While the dole is generous, job protection laws are quite weak.
"Non-defence aircraft orders tend to be quite weak in January, so it tends to be seasonal, but we came off a very strong December, " he said.
"The lukewarm economic data was hardly a catalyst for further gains, and it appears that sentiment is really quite weak, " said Zhou Xu, analyst at Nanjing Securities.
But the episode has drawn attention to the ways in which the United States, omnipotent though it may superficially seem in the post-cold-war age, is sometimes in fact quite weak.
Nevertheless, without the MID, the home ownership rate in all three of these countries is higher than the one in the U.S.. This international comparison suggests that the link between the MID and home ownership is quite weak.
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"Not only do we need to wash the sticky substance off the birds, but a lot of them arrived in quite a weak state struggling to eat and drink, " he said.
However, it is quite natural for weak economies to experience depreciating currencies and for booming economies to see rising ones.
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But the FDP, like the Lib Dems in England, which became his adopted country in 1988, was small and weak, and not quite what he wanted.
That also backs up the idea that new companies are being held back by a lack of finance while quite a lot of failing companies are somehow surviving, despite very weak demand.
When Romney says such silly things this libertarian finds himself wishing a liberal fact checker would chime in and remind Romney that the yuan is only weak insofar as the dollar is, and that the yuan has actually risen quite a bit against the dollar since 2005.
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"It is essential that we get a new type of society in Northern Ireland and it would be quite tragic if that were jeopardised, in favour of one or two symbols which of themselves are pretty weak, but in terms of what they imply have a potency that is very important, " he told the BBC.
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