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...source of evil in the land is not Sarastro, but the Queen of the Night, herself. Testing their virtue through a series of trials, Sarastro conspires with the two lovers and eventually triumphes with them over the forces of evil, leaving the Queen in the dust--daughterless and powerless...

Author: By Lea A. Saslav, | Title: Flat Flute | 3/14/1986 | See Source »

...same time, these companies are necessarily powerless in effecting the degree of change required to end the oppression that is taking place," Traina added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark, Smith Decide to Divest | 2/25/1986 | See Source »

Legislators are often powerless in this three pronged grasp. They need PAC money to run their campaigns and PAC connections to help them with logrolling. The blob's organizational strength pressures congressmen, ever sensitive to popular opinion, into the slimy grasp of its politics. The creature knows its creators' weak spots...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Gramm-Rudman | 2/11/1986 | See Source »

...proceeded for several hours when suddenly, over their radio link to the spacecraft, controllers heard the cry "Fire aboard the spacecraft!" followed by movements, more shouts and a sharp scream of pain. "It was horrible," recalled a former NASA official. "We could hear it happening and we were powerless to do anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Was Not the First Time | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...hearts of true believers. As a strategy, it died years ago. Ever since the dark days of the cold war in the early 1950s, many Americans--especially conservative Republicans--have yearned to "liberate" the "captive nations" of Eastern Europe from the grip of Communism. That the U.S. was powerless to fulfill that wish by action short of war has not stopped various Administrations from trying at least to chip away at Soviet domination of the East bloc. Secretary of State George Shultz last week became the latest U.S. statesman to try, touring a trio of East European capitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West Chips Off the Bloc | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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