Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...according to Kirshner, a man who “treated you like you were the next best thing. He had a manner of treating you, a totally powerless pawn, as an equal, even though you weren?...
...billion of Germany's nearly €150 billion in state subsidies while extending taxes on energy, consumer goods, corporations and capital gains. True, cutting benefits during tough times is a gloomy task, and the coalition did pledge to embrace the Hartz Commission's modest reforms, but the government seems powerless to cut unemployment. "That's only going to happen by cutting labor costs and making it easier to hire and fire," says Solveen, "but with this plan nothing will happen in the next four years." The question is when Germans will do their own Abbott and Costello routine: asking...
...protects us from disappointment is something more poisonous than our parents’ idealism. He must have known that by refusing to have our hopes in politics dashed we have refused to hope at all. He must have known that, crouched behind the bulwark of our cynicism, we were powerless to improve the world. He must have known that we can only feel the optimism that propelled our parents if we stand up, lower our pasteboard visors and stride forth...
...most horrific circumstances," says Jeanne Marks, a psychologist and friend of Feinberg's who has met with several of the families. "They lost total control of their lives, and then Ken comes in and presents them with a plan that [Congress] has already drawn up. That just increased how powerless they felt, and they really vented...
...that in a time of lurking new risks over which people feel largely powerless--terrorist cells in the suburbs, underground Iraqi bioweapons labs--a fixation on solvable, specific mysteries is strangely soothing? The public may not yet have made much of a difference capturing terrorists, but thanks to mass alerts that deputized thousands of citizens at a stroke, it has succeeded in bringing home a child or two. At least it's something. At least it makes a dent...