Word: powerless
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...besides warning students, University officials say the complexities of copyright law render them largely powerless to prevent the use of their telephone directory by telemarketers...
...University Attorney Allan A. Ryan says, warning or not, the General Counsel's office may be powerless to prevent telemarketers from using the directory...
...World Class travel reps, whose job it was to oversee all hotel accommodations and bookings, were powerless and unprofessional when it came to problem solving. A female World Class rep who graduated from the University of Delaware piped in that "you Harvard girls are lucky that you got a room. Cancun is booked at this season. Stop complaining like spoiled Harvard brats," to which Anna Haritos '02 replied, "That's not luck, that's my money. I paid World Class Vacations months ago so that I could get a room in Cancun, along with a kitchenette and a suite." Irritated...
...again the dirty work was left to others. Major Bush backers financed a last-minute multimillion-dollar advertising barrage attacking McCain's environmental record while praising Bush--the kind of shady, unregulated dirty trick McCain has been railing against for so many years in the Senate. The candidate was powerless to respond. For his part, Bush was running ads in New York charging McCain with voting against breast-cancer research. When the Governor was asked whether he knew that McCain's sister had had the disease, his response was ice cold: "All the more reason to remind him of what...
...have provoked retaliation by the Europeans against major American exports. So instead the President chose to punish smaller and less important European companies--companies that furnished bath products to Reinert, prints to Kaplan and batteries to Dove. In short, the Administration came down with a heavy foot on relatively powerless citizens. People who, like 99% of the population, contribute little or no money directly to politicians...