Word: downtrodden
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Stiglbauer has a great talent for enlisting aid--from clergy, police, civic groups, parents, teachers, businesses and even higher powers. That talent has helped transform this once downtrodden school into one of the highest-achieving in South Carolina. "Often educators don't like to ask outsiders for help," explains Stiglbauer, who took over Hand six years ago. "But I say, 'Let them lift...
Outdoor Resorts is, well, a motor-home camp. Not a trailer park, though, so banish those images of downtrodden migrants from The Grapes of Wrath, of clotheslines tied to dented and dusty vans, scruffy patches of grass and malodorous toilets. That's not Indio. The 424 campsites wrap around a golf course. At the center of the complex is a clubhouse with an Olympic-size swimming pool, four tennis courts and a health spa with masseuse. Gardeners tend a cheerful landscape of date palms, bougainvillea, hibiscus and petunias...
...also the world's fault that so many young people in the Middle East, South Asia and Central Asia face such extraordinary hardships that joining militant groups is the only way out of a life of misery. Many of the terrorist networks' new recruits are downtrodden refugees, fleeing from places like Afghanistan, who find refuge in militant training schools, such as those in northwest Pakistan. These schools offer comfortable housing, clothing, three meals a day and an education (none of which the United Nations was able to provide in the refugee camps). Having been let down by everyone else...
...officials would give no quarter on gender and listed them as men. The country's estimated 30 million Christians charged that they were being marginalized because the poor and low-caste faithful could not claim "untouchable" status. And being a member of the "scheduled castes"?jargon for India's downtrodden?brings benefits, like privileged access to schools and a quota of government jobs. (Government officials at their most legalistic say Christians don't have castes.) The Parsis of Bombay, descendants of refugees from Iran and one of India's most influential business communities, were also incensed that their Zoroastrian religion...
...edgy plots unwind through the murky terrors of enforced espionage, Furst's heroes are always deeply human, if not particularly heroic. They are not professional spies but bystanders drafted by events, often Eastern Europeans from the downtrodden states of the continent's core. They live in a fog of moral ambiguity, caught in the shifting alliances and "gray positions" of current events, until unexpected circumstances force them to make choices without understanding the consequences of their acts. These enigmatic men--and the reader--almost never find out what really happened. Not everything is revealed; the story trails off, just...