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...them are low-quality jobs on construction sites. The country's infrastructure has profited greatly from European Union subsidies, which are bound to disappear in coming years as needier recipients in the east move to the front of the line. And then there's inflation, which remains the Achilles' heel of the Spanish economy, currently running at an annual rate of 4.1%, almost twice the euro-zone average. "Since Spain entered the euro zone, its high inflation rate has been consistently weakening its competitiveness," says the o.e.c.d.'s Giorno. Largely as a result, Spain's net foreign balance has dived...
...Your Democratic opponent's adviser says you're open to attacks, calling you "a walking Achilles' heel" who'll be "torn apart" by Schwarzenegger's "Rove-trained wrecking crew." Are you prepared to take the expected negative campaigning...
...point of view expressed above, with its emphasis on fluidity, indicates the reason for The Crimson’s strictures on a most rigid J.F. Dulles, a certain lack of backbone was its main criticism of vice-president Dick Nixon, the Achilles heel of the Republican Party...
...spoke out on Haditha, the Prime Minister's anger was directed at the city's warring Shi'ite gangs. Promising to use "an iron fist" against them, al-Maliki declared a state of emergency in the city. But it will take more than rhetoric to bring the gangs to heel. They too are connected to Shi'ite parties and militias, and the local security forces that are expected to enforce the emergency are infiltrated by partisans...
...Your cover story on Bangladesh and Zia was timely. Although the government awoke quite late to the reality of terrorism, it now seems sincere in its attempts to curb Islamic militancy. But the government's coalition partners are fundamentalists, and that seems to be the Achilles' heel of the rulers. The government appears paralyzed and unable to root out religious militancy for fear of losing the fundamentalists' support. Statesman-ship demands that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party put aside its concerns about winning elections and repudiate its dangerous coalition partners for the greater cause of democracy. Ali Ahmed Dhaka...