Word: powerlessness
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...knots. He didn't want to remind such a large audience that his official position on abortion is to recriminalize it if he can change enough hearts. So he fudged his earlier statement that he would seek to overturn approval of the drug, saying a President is powerless to do so against the Food and Drug Administration. He got lost in a hypothetical financial crisis and said he would hug his way out of a domestic one. On his signature tax cut, he kept criticizing "the man's" (that would be Gore's) "fuzzy math." But when he couldn...
Taken together, the consequences of the SJC's ruling illustrate just how powerless college students are in a disciplinary situation. The court missed a chance to reinforce students' rights on college campuses...
Under the First Amendment, a federal soft-money ban would be powerless to stop truly independent issue ads--nor should such advertisements pose a threat to the integrity of campaigns. However, there is a strong danger that so-called independent groups may in fact have links to candidates or parties, and drawing the lines will be a difficult and politically wrenching task. Nevertheless, these difficulties should not prevent other politicians, notably our current presidential candidates, from adopting the New York deal as their own. On the same note, they should not slow the passage of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance...
However, University Attorney Allan A. Ryan said last spring that Harvard may be largely powerless to prevent private companies from making use of its directory...
...Colombia; contrary to the hard-lined beliefs of the U.S., farmers are often forced to change their food crops to the incredibly lucrative yield of soon-to-be cocaine. Guerilla groups have complete control over the Colombian farmland and can easily hold a gun to the head of a powerless campesino, demanding that he grow the volatile crop. Besides the violent threats of the guerillas, many campesinos have no practical option but to grow coca, for they are among the poorest people in the world. Living in makeshift shacks lacking running water and electricity, the majority are undereducated and depend...