Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...opportunity cost of this passive approach is enormous. Not connecting, not transferring energy, not exploring mutual interests with a stranger, and thus not allowing one the possibility of broadening his circle, of building community, renders one into an individual, a powerless individual, a disempowered individual...
Businesses need to be involved in the push for universal preschool to bring clout to the movement and to advocate for “all the powerless children who can’t vote and can’t write campaign checks,” said panelist Margaret Blood, director of the Massachusetts Early Education for All campaign...
...Powerless children need powerful friends,” she said, emphasizing that educational investments can produce measurable long-term benefits...
...title. In a foreboding sign for this season, foul trouble banished Harvard stopper Drew Gellert ’02 to the bench and Harvard’s defense went to pieces. So did the offense once Yale switched to a zone defense and even the mighty Pat Harvey was powerless to prevent a jarring 66-57 loss...
...much of the day, he and other Harvard Republicans stood on two cold street corners with Romney signs, waving at passing motorists—even though, he said, “at this point, you’re powerless...