Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gandhian influence dominated freedom struggles on the African continent right up to the 1960s because of the power it generated and the unity it forged among the apparently powerless. Nonviolence was the official stance of all major African coalitions, and the South African A.N.C. remained implacably opposed to violence for most of its existence...
...member and Cambridge resident Bill Cavellini explained that many tenants feel powerless and are unaware that "they don't have to put up with their landlords harassing them...
...either educational or religious reasons--might want to teach their own children, rather than sending them to a poorly-funded public school or to an institution which does not promote and may in fact ignore their personal beliefs. Home-schooling provides control in a society where parents often feel powerless. And it may seem like a logical extension of that control for those parents to send their children to a home-schoolers' college with all of the same rules and values that individual homes try to maintain...
Many who have been through the process have expressed frustration and disillusionment, citing lack of transparency and unreasonable length as main reasons for dissatisfaction. Because it is difficult to predict how long the clearance process may take for a particular recruit, the candidate is reduced to being a powerless bystander, unable to plan a personal life and career, waiting indefinitely for a thumbs-up from the Agency. For those currently holding jobs and looking for a career change into the Agency the hope for a quiet job search is blown as the investigators require interviews from the candidate's current...
Berkeley may be powerless to increase diversity in its student body, but the diversity of the faculty is a goal well within their reach, as faculty committees are largely responsible for hiring new professors. Noguera says he finds these committees' inaction, and the fact that they have failed to increase the numbers of women and minorities in their ranks, reprehensible...