Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Powerless to block Three Gorges, critics hope it will be at least slowed by inadequate financing. They are urging governments and private investors to withhold the $3 billion in foreign loans and investments that the Chinese are seeking to help build the $30 billion dam. Says Dai Qing, a Chinese opponent of the dam who won a Goldman Environmental Prize last year, and is now a visiting scholar at the Australian National University: "I hope that people all over the world who love the environment and who love China will band together to stop this disastrous project...
...confidence of its constituents, and to build a history of truly beneficial policy on behalf of its students. It doesn't even have enough power for students to have a passing interest in it. In the last council elections, barely 20 percent of undergraduates voted. The council is powerless, and students know...
...haughty for such a powerless institution to parade as a legitimate student representative that lies on a plane above all other student organizations. It is incongruent and deplorable for it to be so well-funded by our tuition fees. The council has no divine right to occupy such a position, and it should...
...poet Adrienne Rich '51 has written of "the invisible violence of the institution of motherhood to mothers: the guilt, the powerless responsibility for human lives, the judgments and condemnations, the fear of her own power, the guilt, the guilt, the guilt...
...House, where Republicans haven't been a majority since the Eisenhower days -- and have been powerless in all that time to so much as bring a bill to the floor without begging for Democratic help -- the prospects are a little less bright. Just a few weeks ago, Gingrich could seriously entertain dreams of G.O.P. gains of 40 seats, enough to make his party the majority and him the next Speaker. Now, though the Republicans can still be expected to score at least 25 seats, their chances for more are clouded by a Democratic rebound made evident by the latest TIME/CNN...