Word: powerlessness
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Sharing Leonard's and Poussaint's view is Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department. "Black administrators here are powerless," Guinier said...
However, Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, challenges this opinion, maintaining that there is no racist barrier to his authority, and says he feels that "blacks who think they are powerless are suffering from pathological paranoia...
...that matter any of the smaller ones, are offering dramatic new policies; Britons face the same "choice" they have had since 1964: Heath or Wilson. Similar as these two sly, unadmirable men have always been, they have never seemed so indistinguishable as now--whichever one is elected will be powerless. The problems Britain faces are certainly not insoluble, but they outrun the imagination and power of any British government--and certainly any possible British prime minister...
Both the Chief, the City Manager and the Council swore and pleaded as to the impotency of their office when it comes to dismissing misbehaving officers. According to them, they are powerless to do other than hope, trust and pray that the Civil Service Commission will take action...
Committee members seem to look at unionization as not merely a step toward higher wages, but as a move that would be of as much spiritual as economic value. The 40-odd people at last week's meeting complained that they feel powerless in their dealings with the administration, and that a union would give them a voice in determining their own working conditions...