Word: haplessness
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McCloskey's opponent, John Hostettler, has raised the issue in the campaign, a sure sign that the McCloskey's strong position isn't playing well. Becoming the champion of the hapless Bosnians was not a savvy political move...
...selling a baseball team, in part because there are probably more major Van Gogh paintings floating around than available big league franchises. The Orioles were auctioned off for a record $173 million last year, an increase of more than $100 million from their purchase price in 1988. Even the hapless Seattle Mariners, who have had only two winning seasons in their 17-year history, were successively sold for $13 million in 1981, $76 million in 1989 and $125 million in 1992. There are four or five serious bidders for the hand-to-mouth Pittsburgh Pirates (asking price: $85 million...
...partisanship. "You come from a party which while it held the White House was responsible for Watergate and Iran-contra," he said.WHAT NEXT? Expect Altman to resign, says TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. Others who can be counted "among the walking dead" include Jean Hanson, the Treasury counsel, and hapless diarist Josh Steiner, Treasury Department chief of staff. Also watch for the President's popularity to dip even further. "It seemed as if a lot of officials inside the White House were evasive," says Ratan. "It adds to the reservoir of doubt that a lot of people have about this...
Other slang words are truly contemporary. Robert Bork, the hapless federal judge who got clobbered by political opponents when he was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, may take some grudging satisfaction in finding himself memorialized as a verb: to bork is to "attack systematically, especially in the media." Granny dumping, "the abandonment of an elderly person," is another term of recent vintage...
...debate culminates, it has come to focus primarily on a single dichotomy--"employer mandates"--which liberals vaunt as a benison to be distributed to heretofor hapless American workers, versus "individual mandates" which curmudgeonly conservatives offer as a rear-guard action to stave off the "potentially disastrous consequences" of the above mentioned liberal benison...