Word: bereft
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...liberals do, and therefore have more freedom to maneuver. Didn't Reagan say government was "the problem, not the solution"? The very notion of planning for the common good, especially long-term planning, seems vaguely ... socialist, doesn't it? The Bush Administration is filled with hard-charging executives but bereft of meat-and-potatoes managers. Not much priority is placed on pedestrian things like delivering the ice to New Orleans or keeping the peace in Baghdad...
...Normally, the rusting blue barge would be packed with people and vehicles, while the road that runs up to the river would teem with taxis and trucks, traders shouting for business and farmers herding cows and donkeys. But this afternoon, the Gambian port of Farafenni is a ghost town. Bereft of customers, traders are closing their shops, pulling down corrugated shutters and tugging on the padlocks to make sure they're secure. A two-month-old dispute between Gambia and its enveloping neighbor Senegal has cut river crossings, the lifeblood of Farafenni's business, to a trickle. "This is hurting...
...something many Orleanians had indeed been clamoring for-and that he'd warned them to "come prepared, with your eyes wide open." Others attribute Nagin's haste to a fear that too many residents have decided not to return to live in New Orleans-which could leave the city bereft of enough homeowners and workers to make its resurrection possible. Nagin conceded this week that New Orleans' post-Katrina population could be cut in half to about...
...pens and tongues of contumely were arrested. Mocking mouths were shut. Even righteous protestation hushed its clamor, as when, having striven manfully in single combat, a high-helmed champion is stricken by Jove's bolt and the two snarling armies stand at sudden gaze, astonished and bereft a moment of their rancor...
...April 28, 2005: At a press conference, Bush calls Kim Jong Il a "tyrant" and a "dangerous person ... who starves his people." Pyongyang's riposte: the President is a "philistine" and a "hooligan bereft of any personality...