Greece has not made the case for how it can recover: how its weak economy can earn the money needed to sustain income and benefits at Euro Zone levels while repaying its remaining debts.
During the summer, when the nectar is flowing, even weak colonies can appear to be healthy.
Even weak programmers can make a good living in the United States.
We've already seen how lax enforcement and weak regulation can lead to enormous wealth for a few and enormous pain for everybody else.
Weak governments can no longer hide their profligacy by printing money.
The weak signal can cause a ship's instruments to gradually drift out of true, without setting off any alarms, leaving the ship in a different position to where it "thinks" it is.
On reason is because we have learned that even relatively weak tropical storms can produce extreme floods.
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The companies, in survival mode and out of pure self-interest, jump at the chance, as even a weak government case can destroy them.
Fairchild Semiconductor demonstrated last week that tech firms warning of a relatively weak Christmas quarter can have a decent post-report bounce if expectations are low (FCS already warned in early September).
The answer is that his argument is so weak that we can only surmise that the main reason anyone is paying attention to it is that Mr. Scowcroft is behind it.
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Moreover, if the relationship between performance and pay is weak, how can they identify and fix any alignment issues up-front, before these issues become apparent to investors as they cast their Say on Pay votes?
Make a deal with a weak player and it can come back to haunt you.
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Yet how weak is something that can learn in ways even the most robust automated systems can't?
If the state is honest, but weak, the Bank can try to train judges and equip civil servants.
They can endanger weak companies and firms in cyclical industries, which do not have stable cashflow to pay down the additional debt.
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America's experience in 1937 and Japan's in 1997 are powerful evidence that ill-timed tax rises can tip weak economies back into recession.
While the economic establishment still seems to think that investors like weak currencies so they can buy on the cheap, experience shows clearly that global investors are heavily growth- and momentum-oriented.
And the muscles in their neck, that on Earth work all day to support the head, are weak, so they can easily sprain their neck by looking to the side, too quickly.
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Location data gathered by the phones we call carry around every day is also not well protected by ECPA. While the Fourth Amendment law gives warrant protection against location information collected through a physical trespass, that limitation is weak since other tools can be used to avoid such legal hurdles.
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To repeat the important mantra, when it is hard and expensive for banks to raise finance, the flow of vital credit to the economy can be interrupted and the price of credit can rise - and a weak economic recovery, of the sort we are experiencing, can be snuffed out.
What seems critical is a keen awareness of the strong ideas that can develop from weak signals.
Instead, we can look at weak points in gun distribution through which guns go from legal manufacturers to illegal use.
"Your muscles get cold and are instantly paralyzed by the hyperventilation, and you can become very weak, " says Dr. Thomas Traill, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
In any case, if those base specs are too weak for you, you can get it with an i5 or i7 processor, 8GB of RAM and discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M graphics with 2GB of memory.
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The second is Daiwa Bank, which is being asked by the regulators to spin off its profitable pension-fund management business, perhaps so that the weak commercial-banking rump can be used as a bridge bank, to tide over customers of defunct regional banks.
The slowdown in GDP can be attributed to weak consumer spending, slow hiring and less government spending.
Another suggestion is for weak states to design policies that can be implemented by private firms and individuals.
But even weak, divided and incompetent governments can, when faced with an existential threat, undertake a major military action.
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