Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is a King good for? Perhaps no question better illustrates the political gap separating Britain from America. The British royal family is simultaneously venerated and dragged through the mud, looked up to for stability and moral authority, and disparaged as powerless and irrelevant. Imagine if Bill Clinton had to answer to Queen Elizabeth as well as Bob Dole...
...hallucinations. Others thought it was mass hysteria, the result of a battle that was supposed to be easily won by the allies but had turned into a rout. But later stories emerged from the German side of the same incident. The Kaiser's soldiers said they found themselves "absolutely powerless to proceed . . . and their horses turned around sharply and fled." The Germans said the allied position was held by thousands of troops -- though in fact there were only two regiments there...
Nesson and Buchanan's comments came in response to a report in yesterday's Boston Globe. Citing unnamed sources at Harvard, the Globe story suggested that Tosteson and President Neil L. Rudenstine were both "out of the loop"--essentially uninformed and powerless--when it came to the hospital merger...
...sure he's disappointed," Buchanan said."I'm sure he would've liked to have seen the wholegroup of five reach some kind of a five-partiteagreement."Either way, Buchanan suggested,Tosteson was powerless to stop the move...
...anyway. Its blurred vision, caused by an improperly ground primary mirror that NASA failed to test thoroughly before launch, is the least of the Hubble trouble. The telescope's solar panels wobble badly when they're heated by the sun; if they snapped off, the craft would be virtually powerless. It is one gyroscope away from being rudderless. And its electronics have been acting up more than they should...