The weekend's unprecedented upheaval--culminating Sunday night in the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America--bared the Achilles heel of the industry: Brokers finance their daily operations using funding that is apt to disappear quickly and with little warning.
But then the price of the edible oils used in many of its products--the Achilles' heel of the food distribution business--started gyrating.
Separately, Bloomberg reports that the Maestro himself, Alan Greenspan, is so concerned about a sudden sharp increase in interest rates that every day he checks the rate of the 10-year note and 30-year bond calling them the critical Achilles heel of the economy.
It seems like Scholastic did a pretty good job of avoiding nexus, but the Achilles heel of the system was the teachers.
But the Conservatives will have to be believed and this is the Achilles heel of the strategy.
The party's biggest achilles heel remains the legacy of their record on health and education over the past decade in power.
This has always been the Achilles heel of the 2014 World Cup.
Unlike other technologies, Sequesco says it can convert carbon into liquid fuel without sunlight, which would avoid the Achilles heel of similar technologies.
Arena woes are often the Achilles heel of a sports franchise.
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Unfortunately, the Achilles heel of this strategy is that it depends on the retailer to set up and maintain the signage often a futile hope, while at the same time a critical portal for the shopper.
That's because, one way or another, they all go to the Achilles heel of the UK economy: "A failure to achieve stable planning, strategic vision and a political consensus on the right policy framework to support growth".
In fact, the Achilles heel of any attempt to increase energy prices to a point necessary to alter consumer behavior is that this is exactly the type of policy that will face serious political opposition, and probably demise, every time.
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That was kind of the Achilles heel that Congress used to attack income shifting with trusts.
Peters, on the other hand, will be spending some of his new free time suing the makers of Roll-A-Bout, an item he blames for the re-injury of his Achilles heel.
But the revolution in military robotics does have an Achilles heel, notes Emmanuel Goffi of the French air-force academy in Salon-de-Provence.
Obama has pledged to defend Dodd-Frank from these attacks, but the incredible vastness and complexity of the law may prove to be its Achilles heel.
It is apparent that the best way to take a chunk out of cybercrime is attacking its Achilles heel: going after the cash flow itself.
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The ease of these attacks reinforces the extent to which fuel remains an Achilles heel for the U.S. efforts in the region.
This Achilles heel of the Android ecosystem (it drives app developers to invest more in iOS apps) has been visible for several years.
McCain has a long list of endorsements, but immigration continues to be his Achilles' heel because of his support in the Senate of unpopular reform legislation.
Wales became penned back in their own half because of their other Achilles' heel - the line-out.
The party's Achilles' heel--its lack of any independent check on its power--undermines at every turn its efforts to police corruption, vet its members, reform its bureaucracy and respond to crises.
But their Achilles heel this season has been the absence of a sustained cutting edge up front, and so it proved again as Jermaine Beckford struggled to impose himself on a Blues defence missing ineligible new signing David Luiz.
Ms. ANDERSON: Republicans will give the appearance of contesting for African-American vote because they've remained the Republican Party's Achilles' heel.
This national discourse - which has been the only one permitted in the country since the advent of the "peace process" with the PLO 15 years ago -- is Israel's Achilles heel.
Its Achilles heel, however, is the still mediocre quality of available apps.
"Water is the nuclear industry's Achilles heel, " Jim Warren, executive director of N.
But while the simple requirement of a physical DVD is an impediment to casual downloaders of illegal content, that physical format has also left consoles with an Achilles heel that has been getting a lot of attention in the press these days: used games.
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With its Achilles heel now diagnosed, Jawbone took crucial steps to reinvent Up: the creation of a proprietary standard for testing (which involved a device known as the "Big Shower 2000"), an investment in over 100-plus new patents, a product trial spanning 46 weeks and a revised assembly process.
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