That left him vulnerable to Mr. Gore's assertion today that the Texas governor "dangerously fixates on the cold war past" but has not dealt with the major issues of economic globalization that form some of the toughest foreign policy challenges.
But in looking at the details of the new approach, tentatively scheduled to begin in 2015, the companies now fear that the new system could be vulnerable to what they call patent assertion entities, less politely known as patent trolls, which make a business of filing patent-infringement suits.
The lawyer said authorities wanted at least one other witness who could directly link Clemens to the use of performance-enhancing drugs, in part because of concern that any case built almost entirely around McNamee's assertions would be vulnerable to attacks on his credibility.
Mr. Swidarski disputed the assertion that Diebold's systems are vulnerable to tampering.
But given what happened a few years later we may not want to dismiss his recent assertion that the global economy is vulnerable to another implosion.
A24 Nuclear Plants Called Safe Seeking to counter assertions that the nation's nuclear plants are vulnerable to attacks like the one on the World Trade Center, 19 prominent experts have concluded that such plants could easily withstand the force of a jetliner crash.
When I talked to Shrum last week, he insisted that Kerry was doing fine; he sounded unconcerned about Dick Cheney's assertion that a vote for Kerry left the nation more vulnerable to attack — not "smart politics," he said.
"They are vulnerable to exploitation".
"That made him vulnerable to some people.
