Like Barack Obama in the US, Mr Key's essential economic-policy challenge is that he will be expected to provide substantial economic stimulus as soon as he takes office, yet the weakness of the domestic economy will reduce tax revenues and limit his scope to raise spending without also increasing the fiscal burden.
But the weakness of the Big East will make it difficult for a team from the conference to accumulate enough points to finish in the top two.
The case coming before the Supreme Court this week will highlight another area of weakness for the big drug companies.
That will eventually happen, but the current and near-future weakness of loan demand will delay that rebound.
The bulls will counter that, at the first sign of serious weakness, the Federal Reserve would engineer a collapse in mortgage-borrowing costs.
The returns Americans are rushing to finish now will be coloured by economic weakness at the end of 2007.
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If the weakness lasts long enough, the timing strategy will catch up, but the swiftness of the early slump has been noteworthy enough to make us wonder if there is a way to generate a quicker sell signal.
When America's Federal Reserve meets to set interest rates on August 21st, it will have more than the weakness of the American economy to worry about.
During a period of economic weakness, for example, a prudential supervisor concerned only with the safety and soundness of a particular institution will tend to push for very conservative lending policies.
Meanwhile, the market may take the economic weakness as a sign that the Fed will step back to the plate with a further round of asset purchases in a bid to restart the stalled recovery.
My guess is renewed economic weakness will be used to justify ultimate suspension of the cuts.
Weakness in PC markets will be another source of headwinds for the company.
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"Once they've gone on holiday this year and experienced the weakness of the pound at the resort, I think you'll find that the demand for non-euro countries will accelerate, " he said.
It will instead reflect the strength or weakness of the overall economy: The more jobs, the more confident Americans are about keeping their jobs, the more they are willing to buy houses.
"With key components like household spending and investment set to fall considerably further in response to the weakness of the housing market, the labour market and bank lending, we remain unconvinced that recent 'green shoots' will translate into a return to decent growth next year, " he said.
Alternatively, policymakers' tolerance of regional currencies' weakness in sympathy with the yen's decline will exacerbate the external debt situation.
"We think residential construction will continue to support economic growth, but it will be difficult to offset weakness in other parts of the economy, like manufacturing, " said Elizabeth Ptacek, senior vice president and real-estate analyst at KeyBank in Cleveland.
And hope the rest of the world will neither notice nor take advantage of our weakness.
Other gold investors believe that continued weakness in the dollar will attract more gold investors like the central banks of China, Russia and India, who see the precious metal as an alternative to paper currency.
The weakness in output growth at home will open up a growing margin of spare capacity that will over time bear down on inflation.
In this scenario, Mr. Najib will at best be forced to govern from a position of weakness for the next five years, lacking a strong mandate to push through reforms.
But will the economy stage a strong recovery after the recent period of weakness?
Will the SHA1 hashing scheme be found to have a weakness before the end of the year?
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Third quarter earnings reports will certainly help to provide more evidence of the mounting strength, or increased weakness, of corporate revenues and consumer spending.
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When the split occurs, McGraw-Hill Education will likely be seen as the lesser of the two companies, mainly because of weakness at the elementary and high school divisions.
By the time of the club world cup, this chelsea will be stronger in midfield possessing which is Corinthians biggest weakness.
It's his greatest weakness, but it's one the Knicks will live with as long as it comes with the rest of his game.
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