Word: powerlessness
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...pledge to release the tapes, his position can be a dramatically flexible one. A Nixon innocent of crimes will be able to yield to executive-limiting legislation and provide a full accounting of activities. Ultimately, of course, he will have to decide when the presidency would be left powerless, forcing his resignation...
...House has been honored," House Speaker Carl Albert (D-Okla.) said. And coming near the end of a year of unprecedented constitutional confrontation, the decision can be viewed as a concilliatory gesture by President Nixon. The vice presidency, after all, is a powerless position that has traditionally been used to such ends-nominations "balance" tickets and appease the grumbling...
...need a coup to avert a civil war," Allende defiantly declared last week, "but in Chile there will be neither a coup nor a civil war." The tragic prospect is that while the harassed and embattled President may succeed in averting a military coup, he may soon be powerless to govern or to stave off overt civil...
...UNITED NATIONS: Nobody has faith in the United Nations. First of all, because it has no power and its composition is absolutely against us. It can never have any positive decisions for us, so how can we rely on it? It is powerless and it's against us. All those Communist countries and Arab countries and African countries. It is the worst place for us to go and put our case...
...college funds and property should be transferred to the President and Fellows of Harvard College whenever such a transfer would advance the education of women. Although the 1970 non-merger agreement might seem to be a fulfillment of this original article, the retention of a separate and powerless Radcliffe corporation contributes only minimally to the improvement of educational opportunities for women. On the other hand, the history of an increasingly close relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe, much of which has been written since 1970, makes Radcliffe's becoming autonomous or even returning to its pre-merger "independence" inconceivable. Today...