"The leadership often cannot control these emotions, because they cannot afford politically to look weak," Professor Mori said.
But while the economy is weak, Professor Fair says, it's not all that weak, so his model is producing an emotionally unsatisfying result: based on the state of the economy alone, this election is just too close to call.
"I had one surgeon tell me that checklists are for the lame and weak," said Professor Helmreich of the University of Texas.
As the well-meaning but weak-willed professor, Viggo Mortensen doesn't seem to understand anything that's said to him; he pauses and fumbles and falls into vacancies.
Mr. Woodthorpe toured Britain with Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "Visit" as the weak-willed Professor Muller, and repeated the role in Peter Brook's 1958 Broadway production, which opened the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
Merkel's coalition is now very weak," said Mark Hallerberg, professor of public management and political economy at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.
"We are unable to deal with this perception of corruption because of weak leadership," says Professor Newman Kusi, executive director at Accra's Institute for Fiscal Studies.
"The Kaesong complex fell victim to a war of nerves between the new leaders of both Koreas, who don't want to be seen as weak," said Kim Yong-hyun, a professor of North Korean studies at Dongguk University in Seoul.
To target them by increasing their national insurance contributions is picking on the weak," said Ursula Huws, Professor of Labour and Globalisation at the University of Hertfordshire.
"Berlusconi is appearing weaker and weaker," Sebastiano Maffettone, a political science professor at Luiss University in Rome, said after the court ruling.
"Everything we do to engineer an organism makes it weaker," said Stephen Mayfield, a professor of biology at the University of California, San Diego, and a co-founder of Sapphire.
