Word: toothlessness
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...Administration's tactics in dealing with Noriega, however, soon turned out to be tougher than its toothless drug decertification had suggested. The State Department declared that Panama President Eric Arturo Delvalle had been unconstitutionally dismissed by a legislature controlled by Noriega after Delvalle attempted to fire the general. Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead certified that the proper custodian of Panamanian government funds in the U.S. Federal Reserve and federally insured banks was Juan Sosa, Delvalle's Ambassador in Washington. Sosa thus controls $50 million that would otherwise come under the direction of Noriega's cronies...
Sanctions have not, however, been wholly toothless. South Africa's economy, which has been in recession for the past five years, is expected to grow this year by 2% to 3%, a rate that one State Department analyst estimates to be perhaps one percentage point lower than if sanctions had not been imposed. South African exports to the European Community in the first quarter of 1987 plunged 33% below those of the same period last year, and the first half's decline in shipments to the U.S. came to a hefty...
...European allies to eliminate all medium-range missiles as part of a larger arms-control agreement. Last week, for example, Moscow demanded that U.S. warheads on NATO Pershing IA missiles deployed in West Germany be destroyed. The Soviets argue that any arms-control pact would be toothless if a strong U.S. friend like Israel continues to deploy such weapons...
...became staples of the cable schedule. Comedy series inevitably came next. Some, like Showtime's Brothers and HBO's 1st & Ten, have been only marginally different from routine network fare. But HBO's Not Necessarily the News, now in its fifth year, offers welcome dollops of topical (if frequently toothless) political satire. Freshest of all is the engaging It's Garry Shandling's Show on Showtime, an unexpected hit that has just won a renewal for three more years. Meanwhile, the Cinemax Comedy Experiment has served as the umbrella for an array of inventive comedy specials. The best...
...seemed, married a man named Raymundo de Larrain in 1977. She was 80 years old, he was 47--it was what you might call a summer/dead-of-winter romance. He was a Chilean ballet director; she a toothless, crippled hag worth millions. But he loved her, he said. So when she ripped up her will and wrote out a new one leaving everything to him, he did not think to protest...