Word: abjectness
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There are few more abject sights than that of Congress surrendering to interest-group pressure. But even by the craven standards of Capitol Hill, it was striking when the House voted 360 to 66 last week to rescind the Medicare catastrophic health-insurance program that it had lopsidedly approved amid a self-congratulatory frenzy just last year. The Senate showed enough moxie to save fragments of the plan, but it too voted to kill a special income-tax surcharge (up to $800) that would have been levied solely on the affluent elderly to help fund the program...
...voice that had most forcefully denounced Hitler, most prophetically warned that Britain must rearm to resist him. While Parliament approved the Munich agreement, Churchill called it "a total and unmitigated defeat." He said of Neville Chamberlain, "In the depths of that dusty soul, there is nothing but abject surrender...
This Daley is not the man his father was, but it is extremely difficult for me to have any confidence in the new administration. His father was an abject racist who did everything he could to exclude Blacks from holding important positions in government. Daley has pledged to give everyone a chance and is keeping some holdovers from the Washington administration, including the police superintendant and the head of the housing authority, but his previous record as Cook County State's Attorney, where he hired no Black or Hispanic lawyers, leaves me doubtful about his sincerity or that things really...
Even though I had been dreading the moment all year, I fought to keep the abject terror out of my voice. "Yes, lunch on the fourth would be terrific," I burbled into the phone with false bonhomie. "I'll make a note of it right...
More than risky, it seems downright foolish to put an entire company on the line for no better reason than abject short-term greed; still, buyouts are popular among today's large-scale financiers, people who are no longer innovative entrepreneurs who build companies from scratch, but tricky accountants who raise dividends any way they can. Now, following the example of Ross Johnson, the chief executive officer of RJR who tried to take over the company for himself, they don't work for the stockholders--they work for themselves...