The merger with Mitsubishi is really a strong bank taking over a weak one.
In the past, a strong pound has caused almost as many crises as a weak one.
In a weak one, and Japan's is limp indeed, lifetime employment becomes a black hole of overhead.
Redwood City attacked the inbounds pass, the point in a game where a great team is as vulnerable as a weak one.
While the amount of trash doesn't vary enormously between a strong economy and a weak one, it does vary modestly, analysts say.
As a result of the impact of performance on attitudes, there often is a relationship, although a weak one, between satisfaction and performance.
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He said his research and other studies suggest amblyopia is actually a two-eye problem and that patching the good eye may hinder rather than help the weak one.
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California's governorship is a pretty weak one: the state's government is a mess of competing districts, counties and cities, with much of the budget mandated by ballot initiatives.
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The program could be used by anyone who knew the password, and he had picked an especially weak one: "pos, " a common nickname for the cash-register software that was also the system's user name.
As a scientist and progenitor of a website called Data-Based Medicine, he begins by citing three studies that have shown an effect, albeit a weak one, for cardiac patients who were prayed for versus those who were not.
With oil prices at record levels and unemployment surging to a three and a half year high, it's a bad time to be a consumer bank--particularly a financially weak one that has taken a hammering on exposure to the mortgage market.
The problem now is that due to a weak dollar, one made weak by Treasury and Fed policy that says its creation is a stimulant, there will be no growth.
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Usually such programs are full of nice-sounding but wasteful spending initiatives, as well as tax breaks that have a weak, one-shot impact on the economy.
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.
The first is that the state has an extremely weak governor, one of the least powerful in the nation.
Without a valve replacement operation, half of these patients die within two years, yet many are too weak to have one.
There's still one weak link in the equation: What if you're using a different e-mail address in five, ten or 20 years?
The army's best bet may be Habibie--another relic of the Suharto era, and one weak enough to pose little threat to its ambitions.
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On Wednesday, one weak housing number, amid several strong indicators over the past few months, managed to bring down the whole market, at least temporarily.
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Investors say one weak point has been shares of gold miners.
Eric Fleming, an American who has run a blog called "Seoul Sisters" dedicated to coverage of Korean women golfers since 2002, says that may reflect the one weak point of the game for many Asians: driving distance.
Falling home prices and a weak housing market are one more element of deflation.
Having a high-school diploma or university degree is a weak indicator of whether one has skills that increase productive capacity.
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The U.S. presents a mixed picture with high unemployment rate and a weak housing market on one hand and growing consumer spending on the other.
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It was just the kind of deal, consummated with a firm handshake over weak coffee, that one would expect from the rich and powerful who inhabit the forum's corridors.
Econometric analysis indicates that the effects of political uncertainty may be overstated, and that the weak economic situation is one of the causes, and not the consequence, of political gridlock, according to Goldman.
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