Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fatah, the largest faction within the P.L.O. He says very little at first, sizing up the stranger. Their taxi rolls past a fat man who has been forced to drop his pants for a search at a checkpoint in the middle of the street. He stands there helpless before a group of boy soldiers and squeals in rage and humiliation...
...Reagan triumph stems from more than the candidate's two 1980 debate roundhouse punches--in Nashua, N.H. over an unnerved George Bush ("I paid for this microphone") and on national television over a helpless Jimmy Carter ("Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"). Instead, Reagan's tactics appear honed to present an image of a genial yet commanding leader, one in control both of issues and himself...
...recent conflicts infused with optimism, it will be the arms salesmen, who do not deal in words. Several of their markets are now dangerously depleted. To the victors, meanwhile, belong the spoils: body counts, colossal costs and some temporary improvement in their fortunes. To the rest, a feeling of helpless stupidity tied earnestly, as ever, to figments of hope. ?By Roger Rosenblatt
Poverty has existed in every Administration. The same pictures of the poor starving children are shown year after year to gain our sympathy-and contributions. There will always be helpless people getting hurt. President Reagan should not have to take all the blame. He, like Presidents before him, could go on a spending spree of our children's future so that everyone would like...
...Russian wood products, lost money as a result, and the company sued the International Longshoremen's Association. Last week a unanimous Supreme Court agreed with Allied that the I.L.A. had engaged in a boycott that was illegal under federal labor laws designed "to protect neutral parties, the helpless victims of quarrels that do not concern them at all." Allied had been hurt, wrote Justice Lewis Powell, "as understandable and even commendable as the I.L.A.'s ultimate objectives may be." A lower court will set a price tag on the damages. Dock workers, who have used such boycotts before...