Word: rudderlessness
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...Dick Morris' advice and Clinton's reaction to it suggest we have a rudderless ship of state guided by shifting winds of public opinion." E. TRAVIS YORK Gainesville, Florida...
...years later, he painted The Gulf Stream, moving this apprehension from animal to man. A black sailor lies on the afterdeck of a dismasted sloop, adrift and rudderless in the deep Caribbean blue. Enormous sharks circle the boat. Their ominousness is reinforced by the zone of black water from which they rise. (The catalog, rather absurdly, suggests that celibate Homer was invoking that hoary phantom of the Freudian couch, the vagina dentata. This could make sense only to an art historian who has never been near a live shark.) On the horizon, a square-rigger sails indifferently...
...policy concede that it would be disastrous to back out now. For Washington to send troops "is a terrible idea," said Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Adviser--but reneging on that pledge "could immediately destroy NATO." (As if to underscore NATO's need for leadership, the alliance was left rudderless last week when corruption charges forced Secretary-General Willy Claes to resign...
...work was cut out for him in the rudderless institution...
...ground primary mirror that NASA failed to test thoroughly before launch, is the least of the Hubble trouble. The telescope's solar panels wobble badly when they're heated by the sun; if they snapped off, the craft would be virtually powerless. It is one gyroscope away from being rudderless. And its electronics have been acting up more than they should...