Word: powerlessness
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...same glitch that knocked out up to 90 percent of America's pagers, as well as various radio and TV broadcasts and even many card transactions at gas pumps and ATMs -- PanAmSat's Galaxy 4 satellite has gone a-wanderin'. After the failure of onboard control systems left technicians powerless to stop the key communications satellite from drifting out of position yesterday evening, the binary fabric of our electronic society began to unravel. To the relief of everyone from doctors on call to crack dealers, some pager service was restored early this morning by using other satellites. The rest...
...very reassuring either. I was accepting full responsibility for anything that might happen, and indemnifying A.J. Hackett against any liability, even if the company proved negligent. Essentially, the employees could hit me over the head and toss me off the tower without a bungy and my family would be powerless...
...Sales dropped 8% in the company's third quarter, and footwear sales in the U.S. were down 18%. Orders for spring are off too. Inventories ballooned as customers shunned boring products with high prices. And because Nike cranks out an entirely new product line every year, it has been powerless to stop the damage. "You are always six months away from disaster," says Nike's chairman and shoe-bah, Phil Knight. Nike's earnings projections have been dropping like so many Tiger Woods putts. Worse, the company's top shoe salesman, fella named Jordan, is threatening to retire...
...legacy in his opening to China, Carter turned to the Panama Canal treaties and the Camp David peace accords. Both were milestones typical of the era. In one, the U.S. agreed to give up a prime keepsake of its earlier expansion; in the other, it mediated where it was powerless to dictate...
DIED. MARTHA GELLHORN, 89, war correspondent, novelist and, only incidentally, Ernest Hemingway's third wife; in London. Gellhorn's dispatches, first filed during the Spanish Civil War and continuing through World War II and Vietnam, focused on the ordinary and powerless. An avid traveler and prolific journalist, she also wrote novels and short stories. Gellhorn married Hemingway in 1940. She left him five years later, the only one of his four wives to do so. He reportedly remained bitter for the rest of his life, and she remained irritated for being best known as his former wife...