Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police it. Vendors hawk hot dogs and sodas to try to make money off the soon-to-be-Americans. There is a National Enquirer article hanging in the Border Patrol Airport lamenting the fact that the Mexicans have taken over this part of America and "we are powerless to stop...
Although friendly and attentive within the confines of the rules, everyone there seemed powerless to offer me the one thing I truly wanted--sleep. Now I don't want to suggest that the UHS hospital should be a madhouse where men and beasts roam side by side drinking and carousing long into the wee hours. But I am asking for a place where more people are trained and empowered to deal with individual situations rather than being forced to always follow generic guidelines...
...sticking with it for three weeks--past the point where it was challenging and exciting, past the point where I wanted to stop--it felt much more like it was against my will," he says. "That powerless feeling of being homeless stayed with...
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Left out of the political hurly-burly altogether, of course, are the great majority of South Africans: the blacks, mixed-race coloreds and Indians, who make up 85% of the country's population of 33 million. Colored and Indian representatives sit in two largely powerless houses of the tricameral Parliament and represent 4 million people, but they do not face elections until 1989. The country's 24 million blacks have even less of a say in running the country, since they enjoy no political rights at all at the national level. Says Desmond Tutu, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town...