Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal by Thursday, so that he can hammer out a deal with congressional leaders before Congress goes on summer vacation August 1. Meanwhile, the publicity is risk-free. Clinton knows he's not the one who has to hurry: if Congress leaves without a budget deal, the hapless Republicans will be the ones to suffer, and their new Republican leader in the White House will have done...
...face, the proposition sounds eminently reasonable. Namibia, Zimbabwe and Botswana have elephants the way New York City apartments have cockroaches. Elephants roam everywhere, tearing down trees by the acre, galumphing through the crops of irate farmers, stomping on hapless citizens. Zimbabwe alone has about 65,000 of the truck-size beasts, though its wild lands can comfortably support only half that many, and the other countries are similarly overendowed. "The elephant," says John Hutton, Zimbabwe project director of the British-based Africa Resources Trust, "was never endangered in this part of Africa...
...beginning, however, Harvard appeared ready to surprise the pundits. First, the Crimson cruised to a 23-6 win over the hapless M.I.T Engineers. Zimmerman found the back of the net five times while captain Jonathan Gill added three goals...
...surface, "Man and Superman" is a delightfully Shavian romantic comedy which reverses conventional roles by making the woman the vigilant pursuer and the man the hapless prey. The woman, Ann Whitefield (Kristin Flanders), is past mistress of twisting men around her little finger, and she has designs on her childhood companion, Jack tanner (played with dynamic vigor by Don Reilly), a young man and a decided taste for overbearing oratory. Much to his consternation, Jack is appointed one of Ann's guardians after her father's death--the other one being a confirmed old conservative, Roderick Ramsden (Alvin Epstein...
...refugees were huddled in rebel-held territory. More than 1 million Hutu fled into Zaire from Rwanda in 1994 after genocidal tribal warfare there, and an unknown number have been running ever farther west to escape Kabila's advancing Tutsi-led fighters. In recent weeks they have become the hapless victims of many attackers: Mobutu's retreating troops; Kabila's rebels; local Zaireans resentful of the aid the refugees were receiving; and the death-dealing ravages of malnutrition, cholera and dysentery...