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...voted no: Ne'eman and Ariel Sharon, the former defense chief who now serves in the largely powerless post of Minister Without Portfolio...
...substance of East-West trade. A focus for that critical view is the NATO alliance's Coordinating Committee on Export Controls, or COCOM, a body created in 1950 to monitor and restrict the flow of strategic Western industrial goods to the Warsaw Pact nations. It is virtually powerless today. Complains a senior Reagan Administration official: "COCOM is nothing but a junior Italian official and ten clerks...
What Vaillant calls the "natural healing processes" that relieve suffering and create hope are best fostered today, he believes, by Alcoholics Anonymous. He argues that the first step to sobriety is an acceptance of the first precept of A.A.: "I am powerless over alcohol." Says Vaillant: "A.A. is the most effective means of treating alcoholism, and it worked for sophisticated, Harvard-educated loners as well as for gregarious blue-collar workers...
...Playboy encourages violence against women, presents women negatively and perpetuates the image of women as powerless and defenseless creatures," the SGA resolution read...
...Once I started that, all I wanted was more and more," she says, her voice still full of amazement at her fling. "That's what puzzles me. I'm the type of person, I don't let things get the best of me. Nothing. But I know I'm powerless with cocaine." Says Kevin McEneaney, senior vice president of New York's Phoenix House drug-treatment center: "We all think our personalities are well grounded and well formed, but it doesn't take a lot to tilt the psychological balance." Bensinger, the former DEA chief, has his own plausible criterion...