Word: hopelessness
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...distortion. Anyone who tries to flatten the whole peel of an orange can imagine the difficulty. The features of a globe cannot be transferred accurately to a flat map. If the shapes of continents are correct, the sizes are wrong; a system that is accurate at the equator is hopeless at the poles...
...electioneering with something approaching passion, and winning favorable TV and press attention. A new spate of polls showed that Bush's lead had settled back to between 7 and 10 points, about the margin before the debate. This late in the game, that is a daunting but not quite hopeless deficit. Reasonably objective observers, some of them Republican, reached the same conclusion: Dukakis can still come back, and he even has a longshot chance...
Bush, who has spent most of his energy shoving his opponent out of the mainstream, knows he must protect his middle-class flank with some positive programs. But he is still busy depicting Dukakis as a hopeless leftie out of touch with the instincts of Middle America. "The liberals hate it," he chortled while touring rural Illinois by bus. "They can't stand it. But I am right. I am with the American people, and I share your values." Policy wonks and others who find Bush's prattle about the Pledge of Allegiance and the American Civil Liberties Union irrelevant...
...squad which dominated the Lions? Or is it the team that was hopeless against UMass two weeks ago and Holy Cross in Saturday's first half...
...some cases, U.S. companies have abandoned markets in which they lost their competitive edge, so Americans have little choice but to buy foreign. The most hopeless case is consumer electronics, in which Asians control the market not only for established products (videocassette recorders, stereos) but also for new ones (compact-disc players). Only about half the color TVs sold in the U.S. are produced in this country, and most of those are made by foreign-owned factories. Zenith, the sole remaining major U.S. manufacturer of color TVs, controls just 15% of the domestic market...