Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Arabs have always dreamed that unity would reverse their fortunes and end their humiliations. Yet, Arabs have once again proved utterly powerless to decide their own fate. Not only could they not prevent the attack on Iraq, they discovered that their governments could not refuse U.S. requests for cooperation...
...news: if the conflict in Iraq drags on, there will not only be additional layoffs but longer ones too. Still, you aren't powerless. If you think you might be laid off--and especially if you have already been given notice--there are moves you can make to ease the lean times of joblessness. But don't delay; once you're off the payroll, some of these moves will no longer be possible...
...Bill W., as Alcoholics Anonymous members know them, promised to keep each other sober, following Bill W.'s strategy: a simple set of principles--later refined into 12 steps--that would become the foundation of America's self-help culture. Alcoholics, he said, must admit they are powerless over their addiction. They must make amends to all those they have harmed. And they must submit to God--however they define the deity...
...Kirby’s preregistration proposal isn’t the answer. If students utilize the proposed “liberal add/drop period” just like they use the current shopping period, it is unlikely that preregistration estimates will be any more accurate—making preregistration powerless to ameliorate the “week from hell.” But even if estimates are improved, Harvard’s TF hiring practices will remain anachronistically disorganized...
...Buddhist, and the influence of the religion?observant, detached, cyclical?is richly apparent. Cycles are everywhere. Ramchandra's passion waxes and wanes. Even as he descends into recrimination, he sees his maturing teenage daughter succumbing to the same dangerous passion that undid him, and he is powerless to stop her. Fate, fueled by misguided desire, carries the characters on its wheel, through good and ill and back again. Nothing, Upadhyay suggests with his crisp yet melancholy words, is ever really possessed, yet nothing?not even love?is ever truly lost...