Word: defenseless
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...Rumsfeld, of course, actually said "defenseless." But the Reuters error may be an inadvertent pointer to the fact that the administration is struggling to develop a coherent message on the issue. Washington's allies in NATO are opposed to the U.S. building even a limited missile shield aimed at the hypothetical missile capabilities of "rogue" states, out of concern that such a move would violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty and prompt Russia and China to update and expand their own missile capability to compensate for their perceived strategic disadvantage if a missile shield is built...
...your computer on the X-ray conveyor belt and get in line for the metal detector. The guy in front of you gets stopped and has to empty his pockets. Turns out he's a walking scrap heap, and it takes him five minutes to get through. Meanwhile, your defenseless laptop is waiting helplessly on the other side. By the time you're finally through, it's gone--swiped by Scrap Heap's accomplice on the other side...
...course, that is the beauty of animation: almost nobody takes it seriously. "Cartoons" are inherently childish, frivolous; people seem to search instinctively for their humor. If an audience were to see a child beating a defenseless live monkey within an inch of its life for a good laugh, irate callers would instantly be on the phone with PETA. However, when the poor creature is no more than a figure created with a computer drawing program (as it is in the short "Stinky Monkey"), the animal abuse is nothing less than hilarious. Spike and Mike have capitalized on this tendency...
...women of her time, was legally under the power of her husband. It was under his orders, not a doctor's, that she was confined. Brydie L. Andrews '01 gives a powerful performance as Mary Girard, showing us the strength of a woman in untenable circumstances. Although she is defenseless against the will of her husband, she is never pitiful...
Dr.Arese U. Carrington, a graduating student from the School of Public Health, inspired the crowd with her call for students to "defend the defenseless" in her Graduate English Address. Carrington's family was divided during civil war in her native country of Nigeria, leaving her and her mother to care for Carrington's younger siblings for nine months...