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...inevitable rhythm of high drama. Like the eagle and the tiger, the Americans and Viet Cong tell themselves-and for the most part are convinced-that all they are trying to do is protect the village. The few who sense disaster waiting behind a tangle of motives are powerless to reverse the story line of the Montagnard legend...
Jeff Leib, a spokesman for the tenants' committee, said yesterday that although it was offered representation on the task force, it refused because it "felt it would be powerless...
Khrushchev was too shrewd and too proud to accept such a fate for what he called "the substance of my viewpoint." Though publicly powerless, he believed that as a loyal Soviet citizen he could dictate his reminiscences without provoking direct interference from the regime. His family, associates and friends screened the tapes for details of security matters and potentially compromising material. These they removed...
...Corporation maintains its consensus. According to Burr, "If you [the president] don't like the way a guy is doing things, you ask him to quit and he quits--or else he is powerless." Disagreement is tantamount to resignation, although "most of the issues lend themselves to some sort of middle level of decision," Calkins says...
...members help each other; one alcoholic is always on call to come to the aid of another. The treatment is nothing more sophisticated than the gathering together of a dozen or more other alcoholics who share their drinking histories and admit to themselves and each other that they are powerless to control their drinking. Members attend meetings as often as they feel the need. "My name is John," a member will intone at each meeting, "and I am an alcoholic." Says an Atlanta executive who has been a member for 25 years: "I am deeply convinced that...