Word: toothlessness
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...missile in early April, Beijing helped promote the fig leaf at the U.N. Security Council that the rocket carried a communications satellite and thus might not be a direct violation of two U.N. resolutions calling on Pyongyang to cease its nuclear and ballistic-missile programs. The result was a toothless "presidential statement" from the Security Council. Now, with the test of another nuke on May 25 - this one with more than 20 times the explosive capacity of its predecessor three years ago - Pyongyang has put the Chinese leadership in the one place they hate to be during an international crisis...
...together—as was the era—by the young, blonde, tan, wealthy children of the Zeitgeist.A fifth storyline, about a literal nightclub vampire, was excised from the film after shooting had already wrapped, an apt illustration of what makes the finished film so (forgive the pun) toothless. Ellis’s novels and the films they spawned have always stood on their psychopathology. Bateman murders his colleagues not just because he’s jealous of them, but because he actually is a homicidal maniac; the joke is that nobody notices. He’s the analog...
...When we find prostate cancer," says Dr. Gerald Andriole of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., who participated in the study, "we don't know if it's a killer or a toothless lion - the kind of cancer men will die with...
...morose progress of nuclear negotiations by demonstrating America’s seriousness in actually approaching, and not just bullying, Iran. Since 2006, negotiations have dragged on with virtually no results; the politically hamstrung Iran Six (China, Britain, France, Germany, the US, Russia) have continued to press their relatively toothless sanctions while a determined Iran keeps plodding on in its ascent to the nuclear club. As a senator, President Obama compiled an impressive record on nuclear non-proliferation. By engaging Iran effectively on this issue, he could help to keep the world a safer place...
Leno, Jay •abdication of 23% of NBC's prime time schedule to toothless comedy...