In response Williamson contends that while an appropriately weak account of negation can be offered sufficient to undermine the argument for a general acceptance of bivalence, in the special case of vagueness the phenomenon of higher-order vagueness provides the materials for similarly reducing this weaker rejection to absurdity.
Vadim Zlotnikov, chief investment strategist at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, estimates that a weak dollar accounted for about half the profits for the S.&P.
Weak accounting rules helped mask the scale of the problem for years.
With hindsight, it would be hard to imagine a more toxic business plan: it was just this sort of model that was blamed for the weak accounting of the late 1990s.
A study published in 2012 by the Investor Responsibility Research Centre Institute, a think-tank, concluded that American companies that diverge from the principle of one-share-one-vote suffer from lower returns, higher share-price volatility and various other ills including weak accounting controls and damaging transactions with related parties.
The company's shares took a precipitous slide when Groupon said on March 30 that it had to restate its fourth quarter earnings because of weak accounting controls.
In general, the power of the TPB in explaining actual HIV testing was weak, accounting for only 2.4% of the total variance in HIV testing.
Mulivariate linear regression suggests these associations are relatively weak, accounting for only 4.1% of the variance for total UMAT score, 5.4% of the variance in UMAT-1, 11.1% for UMAT-2 and 3.7% for UMAT-3 [ 1].
They were ideas drawn not just from running an investing institution, but also from his time on an earlier, weaker accounting oversight board that was laid low by the industry.
Plants exhibiting a weak phenotype, which accounted for two of the 20 reduced fertility lines, produced shorter siliques with reduced numbers of seeds, but the seeds appeared normal.
