Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) prevents the use of genetic information in issue of group health insurance policies, nothing in HIPAA prevents the company from using such information to increase a group's rate and price people out of coverage; furthermore, HIPAA is powerless in the individual and self-insured insurance markets...
...efforts of Henry Cabot Lodge, an influential Republican senator with a personal grudge against the President. Under the influence of the isolationist Lodge, the Senate failed to muster the two-thirds vote necessary to ratify the treaty. Without the membership of the United States, the League was practically powerless...
...nuclear arms race or expect a rebuke similar to the one Ronald Reagan delivered to Muammar Gaddafi in 1986," he wrote two weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal. Bombs away! No, he demurs in an interview. He just wants to "negotiate from strength. The U.S. shouldn't be powerless against a madman." As for Castro, Trump wrote that the Cuban leader should be tried for crimes against humanity as "the most abnormal political figure in our hemisphere." Hmmm. Isn't a politician who doesn't shake hands a little abnormal too? Trump says he's working on that...
...lecture, she reached the conclusion that, due to Congress' slow speed and enormous drag, it would have almost no lift and make no progress. However, she added, Americans should take heart at the fact that Congress is almost powerless--scientifically speaking--as well...
...consciously set out to write for children, but that working on Harry Potter taught her how easily she could tap into her childhood memories. "I really can, with no difficulty at all, think myself back to 11 years old [Harry's age when the series opens]. You're very powerless, and kids have this whole underworld that to adults is always going to be impenetrable." That's a good description of the social setup she portrays at Hogwarts, where the students have stretches of time with little or no adult supervision. Rowling believes young people enjoy reading about peers...