Word: powerlessness
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...nothing but congeries of scholars and investors nothing but sharp-eyed speculators, is but a malicious puff of bourgeois ideology. Can it seriously be supposed that the same kind of men who invented the multinational corporation, the stock option and a thousand such precision instruments could be powerless to put their "own" property to some social use? Or, imagine a world in which all the capital was mediated, that is, owned by pension funds, universities and corporate investors. Would anyone claim that no one had the right to ask industrial enterprises to do other than maximize profits quarter after quarter...
...reporter's daydream: his revelations rock the nation, and he shifts from merely writing news to making it. Newspapers front-page his exposés, he stars at televised hearings and on talk shows, fellow newsmen want to interview him, and the reigning powers that he assaults seem powerless before him. For roughly 9,999 newsmen out of 10,000, that vision remains forever fantasy, but for Jack Northman Anderson it has all come true. A college dropout with no intellectual pretensions, a relentless square whose biggest indulgences are a Sunday-afternoon nap and a second ice-cream cone...
...first you feel like Henry Adams-between one world that's dead and another that's powerless to be born. But there's also an exhilarating feeling of being on the brink of a new adventure." Some experimental groups disperse because their members opt for marriage or careers as secular single women. Despite the attrition, there are now at least 50 noncanonical nuns' groups, ranging in membership from three to nearly...
...letting over 8,000 American troops remain for some indefinite period of time even though 6,000 of them are used in Vietnam related activities. Despite his recent statement reported by Prince Sihanouk, that peace in Vietnam takes priority over the final resolution of the Taiwan question, he is powerless to stop the use of the island as a staging area for America's war effort...
...textile industry reported itself in "chaotic" shape. Londoners had to cope with horrendous traffic jams as traffic and street lights went blank. Children were sent home from heatless schools. Housewives faced piles of unwashed diapers, watched their soufflés sink, and could take no refuge in their powerless television sets. The blackouts were rotated by districts in six three-hour periods a day that always seemed to coincide with mealtimes. In some rural areas, chilly Britons hoisted shovels to dig their own coal...