Word: hopelessness
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...result is a society that perversely manages to combine contradictory vices: profligacy on the part of the collective and scarcity for the individual; draconian control and hopeless inefficiency; laziness and zealotry; cynicism and dogmatism; subservience and bullying. These excesses, shortcomings and defects have been institutionalized in ways that almost seem designed to produce the kind of disaster that the Poles now face...
...Congressional Budget Office computer. Its handlers are supposedly nonpartisan technicians, but Republicans suspect them of programming the computer to spew out spending and deficit forecasts pleasing to the Democrats who head House committees. "CBO is politicized to a hopeless extent," said a congressional Republican staff aide last week. The CBO computer played no role in the pre-Thanksgiving brawl, but will be heard from again...
Some of Michigan's new hopeless are crowding into bingo games, raffles and the offices of the nation's biggest grossing state lottery. Legal gambling alone commands an estimated $1 billion a year, or $108 for every resident of the state...
...customary roles of man and beast. Woodhouse is convinced that almost any dog can be trained in anywhere from 2½ to six minutes, and she proves it so often that it must be true-at least when she does it. Most owners, on the other hand, are hopeless. Take poor Mr. Chambers, the tall fellow with the mustache and the unruly Doberman. He-Mr. Chambers, that is-looks smart enough, but is absolutely impossible on a leash. "That's not a very creditable performance," Woodhouse impatiently tells him on one episode. "You're rather fidgety," she observes...
...examples showing the merits of those four principles. Obviously, diplomats at all levels should consider their adversaries' interests too; equally obviously, imaginative compromises are the best way to resolve disputes. But calling for innovation and hammering out a foresighted agreement are two vastly different things. Nothing shows better the hopeless idealistic and simplistic nature of Fisher's four solutions to conflict than the questionable examples he peppers the book with...