Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sununu has most of them scared to disagree with him. One Sununu tool is aide Ed Rogers, who spends much of his time wielding a yellow highlighting pen, marking up articles critical of his boss and guessing the identities of the reporter's sources. Sununu then harasses the hapless suspects...
...token a gambit as this four-second solution seems refreshing amid the depressing political landscape. It might be tempting to cast the media consultants as villains who substitute deceptive advertising techniques for high-minded dialogue. But many admakers feel as trapped by slash-and-burn campaigning as the hapless voters. "I hate going negative," says G.O.P. consultant Don Ringe, who is creating ads for Senate candidates in Colorado and Hawaii. "But all of us, Democrats and Republicans, are corrupted by the system...
...Hapless Columbia and Brown fell to Lehigh and Fordham, respectively. Princeton got thumped by Ivy-killer Colgate, and Penn lost to Lafayette...
Donald Trump is not alone in his misery. Hapless borrowers, crushed by debts they assumed during the go-go 1980s, have made the term "cash crunch" a byword of the '90s. The average U.S. company is so loaded down with loans that it must spend fully 50% of its pretax earnings on interest payments, vs. 32% in 1980. "The major issue facing the nation is that people and companies can't live off debt indefinitely," says Louis Masotti, a professor at the Stanford and Northwestern business schools...
...ranked Crimson (12-0 overall, 5-0 Ivy) made quick work of the hapless Big Red (6-5, 1-4), 13-1, en route to its second consecutive victory against an Ivy League opponent. Like Brown, Cornell was over-powered, outmanned, outplayed...and completely outclassed...