Word: powerlessly
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Over the past week, several ACSR members have said that the group is powerless under the current investment structure. Formed in 1972, the 12-member ACSR, composed of faculty, alumni and students, currently can only make recommendations about ethical resolutions that come up in publicly-traded stock which the University owns...
...perhaps most, members of Congress are qualified and competent -- individually. But together, as an institution, they are paralyzed. Expeditious action on Capitol Hill is reserved for nonsensical commemorative resolutions like "National Prom Graduation Kickoff Day." Important issues -- the deficit, education reform, health care -- are either ducked or shunted to powerless commissions for study. Contrivances like automatic spending cuts substitute for judgment...
...their own story and places them in the cosmic drama. The Bible begins with creation to teach us that God is not Jewish, that there is a world that has a dignity not defined by Jewish history. We were very good at supporting minority rights when we were powerless. Now, as the majority, we have the opportunity to create a morality based on strength: 'Our place' need not mean that the other has no place...
...England is fast fading as any kind of force in the nation's life. The church's regular worshipers constitute a paltry 2.4% of the population. Only 29% of England's babies are baptized as Anglicans. The decline had set in long before Runcie's reign, but he proved powerless to stop it. With England becoming a mission field, the future may lie with the Evangelical wing, which runs some thriving parishes and is gaining the majority among priests...
...same under the Nazis. Germans were the emperors of Europe then, but still suffering from a complex of being powerless victims, having to follow orders. Many of us always wavered between arrogance and submission. After the war, for instance, it was dreadful to see how eager some people were to endear themselves to the Americans. It will take a form of national psychotherapy to bring this into equilibrium...