Word: powerlessness
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...their reports free of bias. Gans did, however, see them subconsciously defer to a set of "enduring values": democracy, responsible capitalism, individualism, moderation. He concludes that the press pays too much attention to the nation's Government and corporate ruling elites, and too little to the poor and powerless. As one remedy, he proposes a national Endowment for News to ladle out Government money to improve coverage of ordinary folk, and even to buy TV sets and newspaper subscriptions for poor people. That scheme is so wildly impractical, so ripe for abuse that it would probably get the sociologist...
...other hand, there was a conviction that the U.S. was far from powerless; the country was amply strong enough to act, but what should the acting be? The group agreed that the Administration should move more firmly to exercise its leadership in the region-to create "options of power," in American University President Joseph Sisco's phrase-but there was disagreement about which options should be developed and how they might be used. The U.S. can no longer send in the Marines with impunity. Always in the background was the hard reality that the U.S. has long since lost...
...assembly found that it was powerless to reverse the Kirkland House decision. Moreover, the assembly could not prevent minor election bungling in other houses--misprinted ballots in Lowell and Quincy Houses and a volunteer who forgot to put out the ballot box on the second day of voting in North House...
Just as the community fought school desegregation, the rank and file of the police force resented, but were powerless to stop, the integration of blacks into their department...
...coup). The CIA provided money to buy the loyalty of the crowd and beyond this furnished the most important element of all for those loyal to the Shah--confidence that the United States supported them. But without a change in the direction of the political tide the CIA was powerless...