It also helps explain why AT&T and WorldCom are both putting themselves through financial contortions to emphasize their remaining strengths while quarantining their weak operations in separate stocks.
Poor performances in televised debates and a weak ground operation have compounded the problem, as has Paul's stubborn insistence on explaining his passion for freedom through sometimes dry lists of the individual amendments in the bill of rights.
In contrast to Mr. Milosevic's weak election operation, the opposition movement managed to organize a fast parallel vote count, enabling them to announce a credible 54.66 percent victory for their candidate, Vojislav Kostunica, over Mr. Milosevic's 35.01 percent.
The candidate in second place in the South Carolina polls, Newt Gingrich, closed poorly in both Iowa and New Hampshire — the result of his being especially susceptible to negative attacks, and having a weak field operation that had trouble turning out his vote.
Meanwhile, the spin on the discs, as ever, is that "we don't need to buy EMI to make the numbers work", but who on earth is going to believe that given how poorly Warner's publishing business is performing (EMI's is far larger) and how much money can be saved from folding EMI's weak recorded operation into Warner.
In CMOS technology, the exponential law can directly be implemented exploiting the weak inversion operation of the MOS transistor.
The optimum design of the front-end circuitry is examined taking into account submicron device characteristics, weak inversion operation, the reset system, and power supply scaling.
Then, by employing Lyapunov Krosovskii functional method and the weak infinitesimal operation, a new delay-dependent stability criterion is derived, which ensures that the leader-following consensus can be globally exponentially achieved in mean-square sense.
Steven L. Rattner, the task force's former adviser, wrote in Fortune magazine that G.M. had "the weakest finance operation any of us had ever seen in a major company".
With yesterday's announcement, Mr. Cayne is betting that a partnership with the fastest growing securities firm in China will allow Bear to bolster its weak international operations by tapping into the flood of deals and underwriting coming out of that country.
