Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...international community's Bosnian "policy" to the breaking point. The United Nations had designated Srebrenica a "safe area" and told the Bosnian Muslims who flocked to the tiny village that they would be protected there. Yet when the Serbs moved on the town, the U.N. had stood by powerless as its residents were massacred...
...movement in America will take a heroic effort, no matter who wins. Beset by corporate downsizing and increasingly harsh union-busting tactics, labor has seen its share of the U.S. work force shrink from about 35% in the mid-1960s to just 15% today. The diminished unions have been powerless to lift the wages of the average worker, which have shown virtually no growth for the past two decades after adjusting for inflation, even as productivity and corporate profits have soared...
Perhaps HSTO should try to be tougher on NYNEX, by demanding better and more efficient service. But we recognize that this is easier said than done. In its negotiations with NYNEX, greater Boston's only major local carrier, HSTO is bargaining from a powerless position. As a result, HSTO has no leverage to control the service provided by NYNEX...
...excursions that lead only to more excursions, of interruptions of prior interruptions, can render readers peevish. Ultimately, The Unconsoled suggests a considerable talent pursuing a questionable achievement. Ishiguro has created the literary equivalent of an endless bad dream: the fright engendered by impossible expectations, the frustration of feeling powerless to deflect an apparently inevitable slide toward shame and ruin. But Ryder's ordeal seems less malevolent than capricious. He is the benumbed victim of nothing more sinister than a patchy memory and a tight schedule. Why reproduce a free-floating nightmare when the real thing lurks each night for billions...
...Politics gives young people the opportunity to make tremendous differences. I got involved because I wanted to empower the powerless, and there is no other business but politics where you can do that," Mayberry said...