Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...powerful--instead of confessing error and pledging to correct it--are deflecting the blame from themselves to the powerless: to the poor, to the child who just had a child, to the new immigrants," he said. Cuomoalso urged his audience to take action in thecoming election and to leave "the legacy of theBush-Reagan era" behind...
...Wolfe just crying wolf? Or has a pervasive corruption -- which the FDA seems powerless to stop -- spread throughout the pharmaceutical and medical- device industries? Upjohn and Dow Corning strenuously deny any wrongdoing.They point out, rightly, that only a small proportion of consumers report problems with their products, and that it is naive to expect perfection in so large and complex a business. In the U.S. alone, there are 3,000 types of drugs on the market and more than 1.5 billion prescriptions written every year. A small number of incidents with a handful of drugs is hardly an indictment...
...made his victimization at the hands of undergraduates and The Crimson known to numerous national newspapers and magazines and in best-selling books, such as RTLsh D'Souza's Illiberal Education. Yet it still puzzles me that a tenured professor, particularly at Harvard, would claim that he was the powerless victim in a struggle between a few undergraduates and their teacher...
...China's crackdown against protesters in Tiananmen Square, the only measurable political effect was to distance Baker a tad from the Chinese leadership. Says a senior official, discussing the bloodshed's being seen by the American people on CNN: "It demanded a solution we couldn't provide. We were powerless to make it stop...
...take" the girls as wives--a euphemism for raping them--but agree to let them go when the Major General appeals to their sympathy as fellow orphans--the pirates' well-known weak spot. Torbay, decked in britches, cape and sideburns, is the quintessential G&S nobleman, lovable and powerless. His skillful voice and comic ability shine in a song describing the Major General's impractical knowledge recounted in rhyme...