"Teens are one of the most disempowered groups out there, " says Tremor's Knox.

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Even inside organizations many managers feel disempowered by the complexity of matrix structures, slow decision-making, and extra layers of reporting.

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We feel that the general population who mainly feels disempowered to change things were blamed in the production of the programme and that the REDUCTION of all this waste is the key to its demise.

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Also, while women can take the Pill to protect themselves against unplanned or unwanted pregnancies, disempowered women are still subject to sexual violence and to sexually transmitted infections, like HIV, from men unwilling to use condoms.

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Despite the pioneer bootstrap culture of the Americans who make their own way in the world, we also feel disempowered by the large complex institutions that govern our lives from government to financial to medical institutions.

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Very much a work of art rather than of history, this beautifully written novel edges towards saying something profound about the relationships between art and life, men and women, the powerful and the disempowered, without ever becoming a simplistic parable.

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