Either way, the fatalities in businesses represent an unusual vulnerability.
Deregulation of the airline industry has been, he says, "a nearly unqualified success, despite the industry's unusual vulnerability to recessions, acts of terrorism and war".
Lacking in generous friends at a time when the economy is crumbling, the country's leader, Kim Jong Il, is facing a moment of unusual vulnerability.
A doctoral candidate in English at Yale and the author of the novel "The Gin Closet," Jamison writes with sober precision and unusual vulnerability, with a tendency to circle back and reëxamine, to deconstruct and anticipate the limits of her own perspective, and a willingness to make her own medical and psychological history the objects of her examinations.
The letter further contends that recent chimp studies for the first time have identified "unique features of the human brain and have documented the unusual vulnerability of humans to a variety of disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, infectious diseases, cancer, and heart disease".
This report further confirmed the unusual vulnerability of the brain to neurotoxicants: pesticides are lipophilic and therefore seek out lipid tissue such as the brain, and because the brain has unusually long neurons, repair of damage in the neurons occurs much less readily than in other body cells.
In addition to their use in epidemiological studies, exposure biomarkers are valuable for tracking exposure levels in the general population [e.g., via the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and in subgroups with unusual exposures or vulnerabilities] and for designing and assessing exposure reduction efforts.
Defense lawyers had contended that the confession was also tainted by circumstances they said suggested that the authorities had maneuvered Mr. Malvo into an unusual window of vulnerability.
"Jeanius," made with the producer 9th Wonder, captures her toughness and her shrewdness, along with the occasional (and unusual) jolt of vulnerability.
It was an unusual admission of his vulnerability.
