Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Advances on some fronts are marred by setbacks on others. Lower cholesterol levels and better emergency care have cut death rates from heart disease and stroke. But scourges thought conquered, such as tuberculosis and whooping cough, are showing new virulence as microbes outwit antibiotics. And we are almost powerless against new killers like the AIDS virus...
Even as Yeltsin spoke, serious things were happening in Moscow that he was powerless to stop. Financial markets, al- ready spooked by the Chechen conflict and further unnerved by the atmosphere of political uncertainty, drove the ruble toward an all-time low against the dollar, even as a delegation from the International Monetary Fund was in Moscow to review the govern- ment's commitment to economic reform. At stake is a $12 billion loan package to back an economic-stabilization program. Parliament jeopardized that program last week by deciding to delay a critical vote on the 1995 budget that...
...general, Harvard students are notoriously apathetic on becoming a unified community. As Chung notes in his article: "in the last council elections, barely 20 percent of undergraduates voted.... the council doesn't even have enough power for students to have a passing interest in it." The council is powerless because the students have no interest in it, not the other way around. As most of the College still remembers, students chose not to recommend an increased term bill alotment for the council last year. This rejection maintained the "powerless" status quo that Chung decries...
While most legislators on Beacon Hill voted for Weld's bill, they said they were powerless to oppose it despite its severely limited protection for current rent-control tenants...
...Chrysler Neon. Forget those small American cars that developed a reputation as tinny, tacky and powerless. Detroit's new subcompacts are stylish, drivable and affordable too, none more so than this remarkably popular little Chrysler (average price: $13,000). Most striking are its aggressive lines, responsive handling and tops-in-class acceleration (zero to 60 m.p.h. in 8.4 sec.). Originally intended for young drivers, the surprisingly roomy Neon now sits in the driveways of nearly 175,000 value- minded consumers of all ages, proving that these days good things really do come in small packages...