Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assembly found that it was powerless to reverse the Kirkland House decision. Moreover, the assembly could not prevent minor election bungling in other houses--misprinted ballots in Lowell and Quincy Houses and a volunteer who forgot to put out the ballot box on the second day of voting in North House...
Just as the community fought school desegregation, the rank and file of the police force resented, but were powerless to stop, the integration of blacks into their department...
...coup). The CIA provided money to buy the loyalty of the crowd and beyond this furnished the most important element of all for those loyal to the Shah--confidence that the United States supported them. But without a change in the direction of the political tide the CIA was powerless...
Just as Washington was unable to forecast accurately the events of Iran's recent past, it also appears powerless to influence the country's immediate future. The basic goal of what Administration officials concede is no more than a patchwork policy is to support Bakhtiar's efforts to restore order. The U.S. backing for the Prime Minister, these officials hasten to add, is based not on preference but simply on the fact that he is, for the moment, the legal head of government. Says a State Department specialist: "We are not trying to push Bakhtiar...
...undergraduate student body. If those women were to perceive themselves as Radcliffe students, then when they have their turn at wealth and power, that wealth and power would accrue not to Harvard, but to Radcliffe. However, to the extent that wealth is power, Radcliffe, compared to Harvard, is indeed powerless. A $36 million endowment is not much compared to one worth $1 billion. And the balance of power in the U.S. (or in the world) is not about to shift so drastically that women will very soon be earning income and contributing to colleges and universities on a par with...