Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approved by her male owner. Thus many men take offense to a rape not because the woman is in pain but because his property is damaged goods. His woman is dirty; his ability to protect her has been challenged and found lacking. Furthermore, when a man views women as powerless property, he directly curtails the quality he can achieve in a male-female relationship. Relations between men and women will only be truly successful when the two sexes deal with each other as equal personalities and not as unequal stereotypes...
...YEARS, Cambridge has been powerless to regulate Harvard; now that it has been given some measure of control, the city must exercise it judiciously...
...comparison, the 20the century has been calm. The churches are less powerful, though by no means powerless. Drinking is far from for-bidden. The water is filled with salt. And elections are just as noisy
...That brings to nearly 1,000 the number of people killed in these "wars" since 1970-not all under the tutelage of governments, yet enough to create a problem. There is not much the world can do about a lone screwball or a roving band, but is it equally powerless to deal with an assassin state...
...short-term future is bleak; if the liberals sacrifice principle, they remain powerless. If they stand on principle, they fall on it as well, for Reagan will do his best, which may be pretty good, to dismantle every useful piece of government legislation ever passed. Over the longer haul, there may be slightly more promise for the liberal wing. Should Reagan win, liberals will consolidate; should Carter win, he must pass the presidency on in four years. It seems unlikely liberals will accept Walter Mondale as his successor, tainted as he is by his vigorous pimping for the president...