Word: powerlessness
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Word of the deal leaked and the outrage it engendered made council leaders reconsider. Black attorneys were threatening suit if Frost was not made acting mayor. The power brokers offered Frost the finance chairmanship and told the Polish bloc it could fill the newly created position of vice-mayor (powerless except in the event of the death of the new mayor...
This is precisely the sort of rhetorical appeal that will attract angry and powerless small businessmen, landholders and workers who, because of sociological and economic changes in French society, had begun to swing toward the left. Yet Chirac is no deGaulle, and in whipping up a general reactionary fervor--without producing substantive new responses to those underlying socio-economic conditions--he may lose control of the forces he has roused and eventually find himself the victim of the frustration he has tried to harness...
...structure or political leadership. An American Independent Party candidate or an anti-busing Republican would be the only potential opposition--candidates who would capitalize on emotions, not issues. The city's government would come to resemble the state legislature, a body run by a dictatorial Democratic leadership with a powerless Republican minority barely preserving the facade of a two-party system...
...Acapulco, Hughes' condition worsened, but his retinue seemed confused and powerless. The chief physician, Dr. Wilbur Thain, a general practitioner from Utah who is the brother-in-law of Bill Gay, was not even there. He had gone off a few days earlier to Florida. In his absence, the other physicians seemed unable to take any decisive action. On Saturday, April 3, 1976, Margulis stepped into the small, blacked-out room where Hughes lay dying...
...diving competition, Harvard easily outplunged the powerless Wellesley women as Molly Munch jack-knifed to victory. Freshman Sue Abkowitz, a week-old veteran of the diving well, nabbed second place in addition to splashing by her opposition in the 50-yd. butterfly...