Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bradley, whose city is only 17% black, echoes that view. "You must build credibility with business and labor and city government. Black politicians will be successful when they can demonstrate that a black can serve the interests of all the people." Without such coalitions, the mayor can end up powerless. In his first week on the job, Harold Washington lost control of the Chicago city council to a group of rebellious white council members who proceeded to divvy up key committee chairmanships and leave the mayor's supporters out in the cold. Washington fought the councilmen in court...
...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...