Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guide's powerless Cabinet unhappily agreed. Said a disgusted Cabinet secretary as he emerged from...
...grudgingly accepted the ban as a necessary means of choking off Castro's dollar supplies. Now that Washington has approved a legal way around the embargo, Tampa cigarmen are wondering out loud whether their industry is being uselessly sacrificed. As explained by the Treasury Department, the embargo is powerless to prevent entry into the U.S. of Cuban tobacco manufactured into cigars in any third nation or its possessions-Spain's Canary Islands, for example...
...doubt the advisers will profit from this close association. But the real problem is largely untouched. Advisers will still have only a superficial knowledge of fields outside their own, and all too often they will find themselves with advisees whom they are powerless to help. Every year, in fact, there are less advisers in science than potential science majors. As a result, the Freshman Dean's Office is forced to divine which of the entering freshmen are the bona fide scientists and which aren't. According to James H. Case III, senior adviser to Yard East, the diviners are often...
...these characters never find reality as absorbing as their own besetting fantasy. Fantasy is the reprisal of the powerless against a world they cannot change. The fantasy of the dying druggist is simply that he is not dying, even while he is. The fantasy of the judge is that he can get the Government to redeem Confederate money, $10 million of which he happens to have. Jester's fantasy revolves around the suicide of his father: if he can discover the cause of that, he feels, he will establish his own identity. Sherman is also an identity searcher...
...reasons for the discrepancy between supply and demand are widely understood. Says Jacobus Petrus Duminy, Vice Chancellor of Cape Town University: "It's as though [the educators] are cooped up in a trailer tied to an engine of fate driven by a force with which they are powerless to communicate...