Word: rudderlessness
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...government by a dictator and his aides, and the economy by equally dictatorial tycoons through sprawling corporate empires. This was the world that forged Lee Myung Bak, and it was his commanding, can-do attitude that appealed to voters after five years under the liberal, often rudderless leadership of Roh Moo Hyun, Lee's predecessor as President...
...awkward for everyone involved. Since everything Hillary does feels like the result of at least eight focus groups, there must be some reason she has decided to subject the American people to this. Perhaps Huckabee’s exodus from the ring has left the Late-Night Comedy Demographic rudderless and open to suggestion. Yet watching Hillary’s efforts to wangle a laugh out of the American people serves as a reminder of the closest parallel between modern politics and comedy: both are startlingly devoid of women. Why is this? There are few holdout “man?...
...step out of line is representative. The problem remains that most Americans already know the suffering of the Clive Davises of the world. They simply do not care. The record companies have been pouting for nearly a decade, nervously adjusting their ties in anticipation of a business model rendered rudderless by the advent of the Internet and new media. Most Americans still click “download” without a tinge of sympathy, not out of contempt for their favorite musicians but for the grubby intermediary that skims around 85 percent off each record sale. But now their desperation...
...metaphors are endless: the headless horseman, the rudderless ship, the car without a driver. Whatever your fancy, each and every one applies to this faculty during this "interim" year. While Judith Ryan, the Weary professor of Germanic languages and comparative literature, proclaimed on this page last June, "As a faculty, we are committed to finding a new way. We continue to move forward energetically," the lackluster progress made over the last semester has proven otherwise...
...from other armed gunmen. It didn't help the AMS's cause that its top leadership, including al-Dari himself, has spent much of the past year outside Iraq, trying to rally support among the governments of Sunni Arab nations like Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Kuwait. The Association seemed rudderless and out of the mainstream of Sunni politics...