Word: leaderlessness
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...community groups aren't the only fragmented interests in town that coalesce only to kill an issue they don't like. The Harvard Square Businessmen, after several years of leaderless lethargy, quickly consolidated forces when the 1972 Brattle Street walk project apparently threatened their businesses. The Brattle pedestrian mall, a Cornelia Wheeler-backed project, closed off Brattle St. at Brattle Square to all but emergency traffic. The project lasted for six months until. Wheeler claims, Square retailers chose to brand the mall a scapegoat for slumping trade and successfully petitioned the council to scrap the measure...
...began to talk to intimates about resigning. He had sunk into a deep depression, viewing the world and its future in near-apocalyptical terms. Diplomats in Bonn began reporting the Chancellor's lethargy and lack of drive. The opposition Christian Democratic Union increased its charges that Germany was leaderless...
...hard to comprehend the morality and sense of responsibility of a man who savagely guards a tattered personal dignity at the cost of dragging through mud and slime the most august political office of the U.S. Why won't this man resign? America is trudging through a leaderless period, and it has long been obvious that Nixon, whether guilty or innocent, is no longer capable of filling the leadership...
Moreover, a trial would take at least several months, during which the country would be virtually leaderless. The White House would be paralyzed while the U.S. and the world awaited the outcome. The Republic would doubtless survive. But the wise and patriotic course is for Richard Nixon to resign, sparing the country and himself this agony...
...professor of history at Cleveland State University: "An impeachment process would disrupt the country, and we can't afford it. I'm concerned about other problems in the country-the monetary crisis, the food and housing difficulties -and we need leadership. A long impeachment would leave us leaderless...