Word: rudderlessness
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...blame. His proposal for a mid-December referendum left Koreans stunned and wary, chiefly because he vowed to resign if rejected. Even though corruption scandals and the administration's indecisiveness have driven Roh's approval rating down to an anemic 25%, voters fear that his exit would leave them rudderless in the face of a stagnant economy and the North Korean nuclear-weapons crisis. Polls indicate voters would back their leader, who has more than four years left in his presidential term, to avert a descent into chaos...
...right now, not just in Italy but in countries across Europe, where opposition groups of all political persuasions are having trouble finding their way out of the woods. By getting out in front on a good idea, Fini provided yet another reminder that Italy's fractious left has been rudderless since its crushing defeat by Berlusconi in 2001. In Britain, embattled Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has been gaining scant ground on Prime Minister Tony Blair - even though Blair's popularity has plummeted since the war in Iraq. In France, the Socialists have been confused and silent, even as Prime...
...notion that Magdalene was pregnant by Jesus at his Crucifixion became especially entrenched in France, which already had a tradition of her immigration in a rudderless boat, bearing the Holy Grail, his chalice at the Last Supper into which his blood later fell. Several French kings promoted the legend that descendants of Magdalene's child founded the Merovingian line of European royalty, a story revived by Richard Wagner in his opera Parsifal and again in connection with Diana, Princess of Wales, who reportedly had some Merovingian blood. (The Wachowski brothers, those cultural magpies, named a villain in The Matrix Reloaded...
...economy is weak, unemployment is up, the deficit is soaring and millions of people are without health care. Bush is eminently beatable in 2004. The Democrats have plenty of ammo to go after him. They just have to stop acting like a rudderless bunch and go for the jugular. GARY SARTORI Concord...
...crime within the state security forces and society as a whole - and it may have cost him his life. According to one senior government official, he was set to sign the warrant for Lukovic's arrest on the day he was shot. The murder leaves Serbia's fractious government rudderless; Djindjic's pragmatic maneuvering was the glue that held the 18-member governing alliance together. His loss casts doubt on future reforms at a time when Serbia is struggling to revive its economy and win foreign aid. "Every man, woman and child will feel the consequences," says Foreign Minister Goran...