Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Skeptics already call it the "lame-duck summit" because so many of the participants are in the waning stages of their elected tenures. There is also worry about lameness of another kind, a fear that the heads of the world's leading industrial democracies may be powerless to make the kind of daring compromises demanded by a perilous imbalance in world trade and by the threat of global recession. Indeed, there are plenty of signs that a gondola ride through troubled waters lies ahead for the leaders of the U.S., Japan, West Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada when they...
...Paisley is wrong on both points. The agreement declares that Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic will never be reunified without Protestant consent. As for democracy, the Anglo-Irish Agreement was specifically designed to foster democracy by granting rights to the large Roman Catholic minority, which until then was powerless and had consistently been denied its rights...
...living things have the same source. It is arrogant of man to impose his cruelty on creatures who have never harmed him and are powerless to defend themselves against him. Ethics demands of humankind reverence for all life...
...rescinded in 1979 (about l million are now members). The law forbidding interracial marriage went in 1985. The hated passbooks, which sharply restricted a black's right to travel and find a new job, were abolished last year. Other, supposed reforms, such as the creation of two separate and powerless legislative chambers for South Africa's Asians and coloreds, were introduced but had little effect...
...built its roads and factories. Yet for years these onetime conquerors have been little more than a permanent opposition. With a population of 1.5 million compared with 3 million Afrikaners, English-speaking South Africans are a prosperous minority, controlling perhaps 80% of the economy. Why are they so politically powerless...