Word: powerlessness
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...moment, though, the market and not OPEC clearly sets the price of world oil. If the cartel tries to roust its rivals by cutting prices, OPEC may set off a downward spiral that it will be powerless to stop...
...words of the book's student editors, a few administrators decided to play Keystone Cops," in the words of Ozment, who is also associate dean for undergraduate education. In the words of the book's student editors, a few administrators decided to censor their work, and they were powerless to resist...
...Arts and Sciences is vested with the responsibility to discipline faculty members found guilty of sexual harassment. The dean might in theory restrict an offender from teaching required courses (which former Dean Henry Rosovsky apparently never chose to do). But unless the dean levies such punishment, the department is powerless to dictate what a professor can and cannot teach because of a past offense...
Last week an embittered and virtually powerless Jobs resigned as Apple's chairman and from the board of directors, following an anguished break with President John Sculley. But Jobs, who remains the largest single Apple stockholder with more than $85 million worth of shares, will not go gentle into the night. He is launching a new computer company that could compete directly with Apple (1984 sales: $1.5 billion). Already Jobs has outraged Apple's board by persuading five of the company's managers, including top engineers and marketers, to join him in his venture...
...being in his hands." Poussaint goes so far as to suggest that ultimately the victims may bring their fate upon themselves, subconsciously provoking the murder and making it a kind of willed suicide. Poussaint notes, as do many others, that the easy availability of handguns gives power to the powerless. What the Colt six- shooter was to the Wild West is what the "Saturday-night special" is to the ghetto: the great equalizer...