Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Raiders are last in the league. Their first win came against powerless York...
Chinese pro-democracy forces are currentlyworking to gain greater freedom of the press andto strengthen the National People's Congress,China's virtually powerless legislative body...
Reich attracts both admirers and critics across the political spectrum. Andrew Kopkind writes in The Nation that the Reich-Clinton plan "does not touch the problem of a powerless, alienated and potentially disruptive work force." Conservatives, meanwhile, see Reich's call for more federal "investment" in education and infrastructure as merely an attractive new label for a bigger, more wasteful, more intrusive bureaucracy. Milton Friedman, the Nobel-prizewinning economist, predicts that the Reich-Clinton program "would destroy far more productive jobs than it would create, because it relies on more government spending and taxing." Jim Pinkerton, an iconoclastic Republican thinker...
...easy to see foreshadowings of Major Barbara and Pygmalion in this play. It deals with the exploitation of the poor and the mind-set of a middle class which believes that it is "powerless to alter the state of society," and so will not even...
Most years, The Crimson doesn't endorse a candidate for Undergraduate Council chair. Most years, we simply don't see a need to worry too much about a body that is relatively powerless on campus...