Word: leaderlessness
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...fairy tale. The untested quarterback takes over a foundering, leaderless squad and suddenly the team catches fire, smashing a different league opponent each week. The quarterback is a hero, adored by fans and sportswriters and second in the nation in total offense. But one Saturday, the hero falls to the turf with a separated shoulder. Eorced to miss the following game, he watches from the sidelines as his teammates lose. True to the script, the signal-caller returns to lead a resounding, regionally televised triumph over the league leaders and cops the first-ever undisputed conference crown the following Saturday...
...offer quite clear alternatives, two distinct views of life and Government. Basically, the Democrats support an activist, interventionist Government, while the Republicans want to reduce the federal presence. Declares the G.O.P.: "Government's power to take and tax, to regulate and require, has already reached extravagant proportions. Divided, leaderless, unseeing, uncomprehending, Democratic politicians plod on with listless offerings of pale imitations of the same policies they have pursued so long, knowing full well their futility...
Since the Justices so frequently gave with one hand while taking away with the other, anyone intent on labeling the Burger Court has had to fight off a case of the whirlies. It has become fashionable to characterize the court as leaderless (all the more so since the December publication of The Brethren, the Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong reconstruction of the court's inner workings that did for Warren Burger what Unsafe at Any Speed did for the Corvair). Paul Bender, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that no single Justice "commands respect...
...leaderless but powerful network is working to bring about radical change in the U.S. Its members have broken with certain key elements of Western thought, and they may even have broken continuity with history. This network is the Aquarian conspiracy. It is a conspiracy. . . . The great shuddering, irrevocable shift overtaking us is not a new political, religious or philosophical system. It is a new mind...
Fighting the Soviet military machine is a disorganized and leaderless army of insurgents known as mujahidin. They are believed to number 15,000 to 20,000 in summer and as many as 60,000 in winter. Says a U.S. expert: "Winter is the killing season, when there is nothing to do but go out and shoot." The tribes are hopelessly disunited and fight constantly among themselves. But for the most part they dislike central authority, they distrust foreigners?particularly Russians ?and they have fought with rising fervor against the Kabul government ever since the Soviet-backed regime of President...