"At the heart of all this was a weak administration," Richard Warren, the English teacher, told me.
The current President, Joseph Kabila, leads a weak administration, which has effectively ceded control of much of eastern Congo to militias.
But the Democrats, sensing a weak administration, will do what they can to make the process as painful as possible.
Yet the weak administration already struggles to spend what it gets.Dismantling the war economy may help businesses flourish.
A weak administration may make it hard to push through the tough reforms that many people believe Slovenia needs.Croatia.
Poor record keeping, weak administration and inexperience mean countries such as Libya "need hand-holding .But, for all thand-holding .Butnts, the mood is brightening a little.
When weak administration, petty economy, and official arrogance have provoked a sufficient amount of disgust, the offer of "popular government" which the three hon.
Kilcullen initially assumed that the Afghan intelligence reports that the I.S.I. was "running the war" were just "a convenient excuse," he said, to deflect attention from the mounting problems within Karzai's government, such as widespread corruption and weak administration.
He heads a weak administration beset by political and economic problems and desperate to hang on to the international support that Chávez built up over more than a decade of oil diplomacy.
But a weak administration and a greedy Congress conspired to produce a baggy monster of a bill which, from a fiscal point of view, might have made things worse.
