Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state of the state address calling for broad-based tax cuts, with the revenue to be made up by legalized, state-promoted gambling. Gambling isn't necessarily immoral, but there are moral issues involved when the state funds a tax cut by, in some cases, taking advantage of helpless gambling addicts...
...absolute hell and then a few months thereafter of cleanup and inconvenience," says John Barber, a businessman originally from Connecticut. "Given the benefits -- the business opportunities, the weather, the life-style -- I used to think, 'That's a fair bargain.' Now I'm not so sure." Others feel helpless. "If they say my house can't be saved," said political consultant Jill Banks-Barad, whose Sherman Oaks home was damaged, "I don't know what I'll do or where...
...Once it gets into the hands of the lawyers,you and I are helpless. Harvard can behave as astupid institution. Harvard behaves that way andhas to behave that way because of the lawyers,"Wilson added...
...Wings of Desire, two angels hovered over divided Berlin, invisibly consoling its citizens. In the sequel, written by Wenders, Ulrich Zieger and Richard Reitinger, angels patrol a Berlin that is politically united but even more fractious -- a city of gangsters and gun runners, of the homeless and spiritually helpless. Wayne's World 2 this...
...next day defense attorney Jill Lansing also tacked a picture on the board, this one showing the body of a prepubescent Lyle frontally naked from the neck down. She went on to describe a toxic environment where two depraved, vicious parents turned their sons into helpless prisoners and sexual playthings. Lansing recounted testimony of the brothers being punched, belt- whipped and molested by their parents. "You need to decide what was going on in Erik and Lyle Menendez's mind that night," she said, "before you can decide what kind of crime was committed...