Word: hopelessness
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...Nowhere is death-penalty politics more powerful than in California, where former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein faces state Attorney General John Van de Kamp in a race for the Democratic nomination for Governor. Feinstein's campaign was considered all but hopeless until recently, when she began to run a television ad proclaiming her approval of both abortion rights and capital punishment. Almost overnight, she rocketed up 19 points in the polls, grabbing the lead from Van de Kamp, an opponent of capital punishment. Now Van de Kamp has unveiled his own TV spot, complete with footage...
...they want in any new constitution." Peter Reddaway, senior Soviet specialist at George Washington University, agrees: "I don't think Gorbachev has any realistic design for a particular type of federation. He is under so much pressure from so many problems that trying to devise something stable is really hopeless...
...last divestment debate was made in the context of a seemingly hopeless situation, among a group of corporate and political leaders who presumably had little understanding of what was really going on in South Africa...
CARSWELL'S further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
...strong feminist, she voted for Thatcher in her first election, but now is deeply troubled about the Prime Minister and "the socially divisive effects of her policies that make it increasingly difficult for the really poor, who are very often hopeless." When Fraser expressed these concerns, she sparked charges that she was a "chateau-bottled socialist" who has prospered under the Thatcherism she deplores. In rebuttal, championing the independence of writers, Antonia snaps, "In France they would have given me a medal." She readily acknowledges that personal attacks sting. "Yes. Absolutely. Fair criticism is hurtful; unfair criticism is doubly hurtful...