The contraction in January resulted chiefly from weak vehicle sales, weak oil and gas output and a softening housing market.
In 1937 Van Dyke directed Jean Harlow in Personal Property, but it was one of her weaker vehicles.
In The Emperor Waltz (1948) she was the love interest for Bing Crosby in one of the crooner's weaker vehicles, but it was followed by Max Ophuls' moving account of a devouring lifelong love, Letter From an Unknown Woman, which contains one of her greatest performances: the New York Times stated, "she virtually wrings herself dry".
The opposite is true in the case of weaker vehicle oscillation.
Many Happy Returns (1934) was a weak George Burns Gracie Allen vehicle, in which Allen starred as a scatterbrained heiress whose father tries to bribe a man (Burns) to marry her.
Delphi, the world's largest automotive parts supplier, Thursday slashed its second quarter earnings outlook by half and cut its full-year profit target, due to weak new-vehicle sales and production and costs from a legal settlement.
In Chrysler's case, its biggest problem was a weak lineup of vehicles and tight constraints on product spending.
The second floor of this garage, long deemed too weak to support vehicles, has become a gallery of sorts, home to hundreds and hundreds of paintings, photographs, posters and objects, neatly framed and mounted on the walls.
When a tracked vehicle travels along a straight line on weak ground, the vehicle tends to slip owing to motion resistance, as shown in Fig. 2. Resistance from the ground is mainly comprised of bulldozing and compaction resistances [10].
With the combination of high gas prices and a weak economy crippling vehicle sales, the resources of General Motors and the Ford Motor Company are being stretched to the limit.
