Word: powerlessness
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...campus, the HCC is prone to certain mistakes that can be prevented through greater transparency. Delegation and centralization can be useful tools for planning certain initiatives, but the result in this case was that the UC, responsible both financially and in terms of organizational legitimacy, was left powerless and penniless. When these channels of communication break down or don’t exist in the first place, those responsible for handling oversights are left no ability to fulfill that responsibility. In all, the process left a sour taste in the mouths of everyone involved, but if it takes a failure...
...your model of a political hero in a democratic society? While pursuing that caprice, he left the water, sewer and electricity networks in dire condition. You're right that he has leveled hundreds of illegal buildings, particularly in the city center, but these were mostly houses of poor and powerless people, who needless to say were not offered any alternative places to live. Illegal building by the rich and powerful is flourishing - even skyscrapers! A similar pattern is evident in our streets and sidewalks: rebuilt mostly in the business district, while the rest are full of holes, lack drains...
...really can take away massive grants that have literally nothing to do with the Department of Defense, there’s nothing but congressional restraint that stops them from changing any other university policy on a political whim. All students, whether queer or straight, conservative or progressive, powerful or powerless, should be concerned about the implications of that precedent for the sake of academic freedom and equality of opportunity. If you are, I’ve heard that there’s a captain over at MIT who positively loves getting mail...
...living wage laws. This kind of analysis misses a crucial point about living wage movements: their mission doesn’t end with a vote. On paper, Florida has a $6.15 minimum wage. But in reality, wages are constantly being worked out between workers and employers. If workers feel powerless to force their bosses to obey the law, living wage laws frequently aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. That’s why ACORN continues to work with Florida labor unions to ensure that workers receive the living wage to which they...
...fight with the left, Bush gets one with the right. Conservatives find themselves struggling with whether they really want to whack their President when he's already down and go on the record opposing a devout Evangelical whom he trusts completely. Fight him and lose, and they prove how powerless they are to affect much of anything that counts; swallow hard and fall in line, and what good is their access anyway? By contrast, the Democrats--looking smug and convinced they have dodged a bullet with Miers' selection--actually had it easy. Senate minority leader Harry Reid boasted that...