Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Student managers of HSA's 12 agencies said this week they have feltincreasingly powerless and intimidated byprofessional staff members. Since 1983, when thedirectors doubled the number of professionals tosix, they have played a growing role in directingthe company's fortunes and helping it show aprofit after several money-losing years...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and HSA managers said the measure arises from a worsening atmosphere in which undergraduates feel increasingly powerless. The problems have intensified in recent years of rising profits and growing professional input to HSA activities, they said...
Opposition leaders want the presidential ballot moved up. They also want to eliminate provisions in the constitution that make congress virtually powerless to amend it, that call for at least nine of the 35 senators to be government appointed and that give the armed forces both autonomy and supervisory role in national policy-making...
COLLEGE students, and especially B.U. students, should know by now that at the bureaucratized university of the 1980s, they are essentially powerless. The administrators don't care what students think. They don't even want to hear it. Their philosophy--"Je suis I'universite"--is inspired by one of Silber's role models, the late Louis XIV of France...
...much to offer, if only someone would take it," Tyler writes, and Maggie is not shy about offering. Powerless in her own marriage, she attempts to control her son. Jesse responds to his mother's effusiveness with a combination of scorn and need, alternately damning her and making demands on her. Maggie's determination to help Jesse find happiness makes him incapable of finding...