Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since its inception, GEPI has received more than 200 applications for help, of which 50 have been accepted and another 50 are still under consideration. Some 80 companies were turned down as hopeless cases, and another 20 had to go elsewhere for treatment; one of GEPI'S ground rules is that a patient cannot be accepted unless there is a demonstrably good chance of recovery. GEPI'S usual therapy is to use government money to buy a minority, or in some cases a majority holding in an ailing company. Whenever possible the agency tries to find private firms...
...step through law school and into a job as law clerk with the prestigious New York City law firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. Young Roosevelt soon began telling fellow law clerks that he planned to follow in Cousin Theodore's footsteps. The first step was a seemingly hopeless contest for the state senate. But F.D.R. won as a progressive Democrat -thanks largely to the gusto of his campaign-and immediately plunged into a dangerous scrap with Boss Murphy's Tammany Hall over the selection of a U.S. Senator. Some of the book's best passages relate intricate...
FIRE IN THE LAKE by Frances Fitz-Gerald. Vietnamese life seen in a historical context that makes the war seem more hopeless and foolish than ever...
Already, there is surprisingly strong feeling among many political and intellectual figures in Saigon that a ceasefire is imminent and that Thieu's position is hopeless. "Thieu is finished," contends an anti-Communist Vietnamese scholar. "He was, perhaps, the man for war. He is not the man for peace. We must have a new man." Agrees Ly Quy Chung, a deputy in the South Vietnamese lower house: "We must prepare for the new political struggle. We must have a new team and not the one that has lost the war, or they will lose again." The battle for political...
...When the bubble breaks, it breaks, and it's sure broken now," he said. "We've had it this year. We're dead. Only our top five men are competitive, but our bottom guys can't play worth a darn and the freshman team is hopeless...