Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Once I started that, all I wanted was more and more," she says, her voice still full of amazement at her fling. "That's what puzzles me. I'm the type of person, I don't let things get the best of me. Nothing. But I know I'm powerless with cocaine." Says Kevin McEneaney, senior vice president of New York's Phoenix House drug-treatment center: "We all think our personalities are well grounded and well formed, but it doesn't take a lot to tilt the psychological balance." Bensinger, the former DEA chief, has his own plausible criterion...
...years, the Corporation has denied any effective student participation in its decision-making hierarchy. The only official access point for student opinion is the powerless ACSR, where a single undergraduate sits on a committee dominated by Harvard-appointed faculty and alumni. On the few occasions, when students engineer a majority on the ACSR--as they did in recommending divestiture from Carnation last year, the Corporation routinely ignores the ACSR vote. This year, 82.4 percent of the undergraduates voted for immediate divestiture from Carnation: the corporation did not bother to respond. For six years, students have been marching, signing petitions, attending...
...negative media blitz against the Society escalated just after it began to establish a sense of legitimacy the public had never before allowed. Since then, the Society has tried to rebuild itself by softening some of its earlier stances while still maintaining that a decentralized powerless national government will cure society's ills...
...before being brought into the Politburo in 1960 and into the Secretariat of the Central Committee in 1963. As Nikita Khrushchev's loyal protégé, he seemed his probable successor, but following Khrushchev's 1964 ouster, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev elbowed Podgorny into the largely powerless presidency and ultimately jettisoned him altogether...
...congressional gadfly, sworn in for his eleventh full term as a Democratic Representative from New York City only a day before his death; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Rosenthal made his mark in Congress as a consumer advocate, launching investigations into businesses that he suspected of preying on the powerless and poor. Equally outspoken on foreign affairs, he alienated the Johnson Administration with his early and persistent opposition to the war in Viet Nam, and last March introduced a resolution to end U.S. involvement in El Salvador...