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They insisted it was too early yet for any worthwhile prognosis. They said medical science is far from powerless in dealing with cancer. Perhaps more importantly, they said no doctor ever would count out a man of Dulles' physical strength and will power...
...confer such authority . . . The police power cannot be asserted to thwart or override the decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, state or federal . . . No fair-minded person would be so unreasonable as to seek to hold me responsible for failure to exercise the powers which the state is powerless to bestow...
...committee composed of local representatives has no voice in policy matters and is therefore powerless, Cook explained. He doubted that the three members added to the project's governing body represented a sufficient broadening of scope...
...response would have warmed O. Henry's heart. Newspapers all over the U.S. leaped at the bait; feature writers and editorialists wallowed in reminiscence of and sentiment for O. Henry. From a White House lawyer came a letter formally expressing President Eisenhower's "regret" that he was powerless to reverse the 60-year-old jury decree. Thereupon Texas' Democratic Representative Homer Thornberry announced that he was studying the possibility of asking for quick action by Congress. Intoned the Chicago Sun-Times: "A grateful and appreciative American public pardoned O. Henry many, many years...
Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders, which 'pictures the consumer as powerless to resist motivational advertising," is indicative of the widespread uneasiness, Bauer asserted, and worry about conformity is on its way to becoming more of a problem than conformity itself...