Word: powerlessness
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...Republicans. If there is no firm agreement on the outlines for a new budget package by this week, Baker warned, the committee would begin fashioning a package of smaller defense-funding increases, new revenue-raising taxes and entitlement-program reductions on its own. Baker said he would be powerless to stop such a move...
Contrary to what the scenes with actual characters have indicated, the tribunal episodes portray the three as bloodthirsty, armed terrorists. The audience knows what really happened. We see another truth replacing ours, and though we don't believe it, we are powerless...
Even more importantly, if the constitution should fail--especially if by inadequate turnout--students will have to live with the ineffective and powerless bodies it now has. If students believe the Student Assembly is a fantastic forum for student discussion and input, if students believe CHUL and CUE give students a wonderful opportunity to provide student opinion on important areas of housing, college life and education, if students are happy with only House-wide (and frequently alcohol-free) parties and events and think a campus-wide concert, dance or party is somehow immoral or unwanted, and if students want these...
...when die-hard opponents protested in court. Harvard lawyers emphasized the cost of further delays for the University. After years of defeat at the hands of powerless but impassioned citizens. Harvard got what it wanted by using the prestige of its president and the bizarre argument that the University should not have to suffer further financial strain from MATEP...
...lines of Social Studies-one which could offer tutorials and treat women's studies in an interdisciplinary manner. There are students here who want to concentrate in women's studies, and most of the American academic community has endorsed the idea. Harvard owes these students more than a powerless and ineffectual committee...