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Word: powerless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate soon rises to rage. Less innocent than powerless, King finds his "book" for the show increasingly interrupted by caterwauling songs. His prostitutes, college boys and blue-mouthed sheriff-hero are transformed into sanitized cartoons. Disputes with collaborators become glacial standoffs or public snits. A fourth Alamo irregular, 6-ft. 7-in. Director and Choreographer Tommy Tune, fears that the shorter King will "strike" him: "I go home exhausted and all I can see when I close my eyes is your angry face!" King scratches his head. "That dude grew up on a different planet," he decides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cattle Call | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

...Republicans. If there is no firm agreement on the outlines for a new budget package by this week, Baker warned, the committee would begin fashioning a package of smaller defense-funding increases, new revenue-raising taxes and entitlement-program reductions on its own. Baker said he would be powerless to stop such a move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stumbling to a Showdown | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

Contrary to what the scenes with actual characters have indicated, the tribunal episodes portray the three as bloodthirsty, armed terrorists. The audience knows what really happened. We see another truth replacing ours, and though we don't believe it, we are powerless...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Patchwork of Freedom | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

Even more importantly, if the constitution should fail--especially if by inadequate turnout--students will have to live with the ineffective and powerless bodies it now has. If students believe the Student Assembly is a fantastic forum for student discussion and input, if students believe CHUL and CUE give students a wonderful opportunity to provide student opinion on important areas of housing, college life and education, if students are happy with only House-wide (and frequently alcohol-free) parties and events and think a campus-wide concert, dance or party is somehow immoral or unwanted, and if students want these...

Author: By Leonard T. Mendonca, | Title: Meetings, Headaches, and Mixed Emotions | 3/11/1982 | See Source »

...when die-hard opponents protested in court. Harvard lawyers emphasized the cost of further delays for the University. After years of defeat at the hands of powerless but impassioned citizens. Harvard got what it wanted by using the prestige of its president and the bizarre argument that the University should not have to suffer further financial strain from MATEP...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Making Energy and Enemies | 3/10/1982 | See Source »

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