Word: rudderlessness
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...raging off in search of other victims. The death toll approached 2,000, and in Delhi, where more than 550 died, four days of madness and murder also left some 20,000 Sikhs crowded into refugee camps. Suddenly a nation that had thought of Indira as its mother seemed rudderless and orphaned. "Over the years, Madame kept us in check," said a senior Indian journalist. "Once she is gone, we go berserk...
...Quebec noisily threatened to secede, Trudeau blunted the menace with bilingual reforms. Toward the end of his tenure, however, Trudeau was increasingly perceived by Canadians as having overstayed his welcome. Many felt that the Prime Minister had grown bored and petulant, and that the Liberal Party had become rudderless, lazy, unimaginative. Against the backdrop of a stagnant economy, Canadians yearned for a fresh new course. The election results were not so much a resounding note for Mulroney as they were a deafening rejection of the incumbents. "The Liberal Party had become too remote, too arrogant," says George Perlin, professor...
...produce economic forecasts that offer hope for the ultimate success of Reaganomics. When Murray Weidenbaum resigned the post three weeks ago to return to teaching, his sudden departure and disavowal of the Government's latest optimistic projections reinforced fears that the Administration's economic policy is rudderless and foundering...
...many Israelis, the new elections could not come early enough. They are deeply worried about the prospect of the country being in the hands of a rudderless government. Said Meron Medzini, a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "We have here a terrible crisis of confidence. There are some people who are worried about the future of democracy." Said Knesset Member Uri Avneri, a longtime critic of the Israeli political Establishment: "The government is breaking apart. It's like metal fatigue...
...solved all America's problems." But as it emerged from a 158-member committee in Washington, the Democratic platform for the 1980 presidential election blamed most of the country's problems on Jimmy Carter's predecessors: "Eight years of Republican politics [that] left this nation weak, rudderless and divided." The Republicans were handily accused of causing inflation, unemployment, continued dependence on foreign oil and even the current recession...