Word: hopelessness
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...enough to jump all over a baseball team (with 155 games left in the season) for an opening day loss. But to boo one of the game's best rightfielders for failing to hustle in the midst of a hopeless drubbing is bush league fansmanship...
...situation hopeless? Perhaps not. In 1980, Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act--commonly known as the "Superfund" law. Under this law, the Environmental Protection Agency disposes of hazardous waste with funds collected from those who were responsible, namely, the producers of chemicals...
There are about 10,000 other Americans in Nancy Jobes' predicament, a hopeless twilight known to doctors as a "permanent vegetative state." For their families, they are a constant source of anguish, and there is a tremendous financial burden (as much as $100,000 a year, usually paid by insurance). These patients pose a knotty ethical dilemma for doctors as well --a conflict between the duty to sustain life and the obligation to relieve suffering. With few professional guidelines to help them resolve the conflict, doctors have frequently decided to continue treatment because of their moral qualms or fear...
...probably still wondering if Jack finally found a way to redeem himself in The Best of Times. But her team is full of genuinely funny fellows, Hawn herself is full of spunky charm, and Director Ritchie has a light and wayward comic touch, so even a hopeless male chauvinist can have a good, instructive time at Wildcats. If there are such things as necessary fairy tales, these movies cheerfully provide them...
...death of being thought insincere. Divestment protests might seem like a fad, and the erection of shanties a poor imitation of draft card burning. Thus all evidence of solidarity is denied so as to prove to skeptics that the divestment struggle arises out of a legitimate concern, not a hopeless desire to recapture...