Word: downtrodden
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...prosperous trading business and at one point was Muhammad's employer. A'isha, the Prophet's favorite, was at various times a judge, a political activist and a warrior. Among Muhammad's 11 other wives and concubines were a leatherworker, an imam and an advocate of the downtrodden, revered in her day as the "Mother of the Poor...
...Germany, a nation of 77.4 million people, faces an era of formidable reconstruction. It will take years of effort to repair the damage caused by division and, in the East, by four decades of communism. It will mean putting the East's downtrodden economy into working order and soothing worries on both sides of the old Iron Curtain: those of West Germans about paying for unity's immense costs and those of former Easterners about being second-class citizens in the united country...
Prime Minister V.P. Singh's decision eight weeks ago to give 27% of government jobs to the so-called backward classes might strike outsiders as a reasonable step toward helping India's downtrodden millions. But last week 11 students protested Singh's plan by committing suicide, five by self-immolation, while 70 others attempted to set themselves on fire. At the same time, students all over the north, mostly from the upper castes, battled police in India's worst outbreak of violence since the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi...
...fine points of his strategy, Saddam evoked echoes of the past. He excited his people with impassioned speeches full of grievances toward their neighbor. He exploited a border dispute, scheduled negotiating sessions that were intended all along to be fruitless, and cooked up a request for intervention by supposedly downtrodden locals. The invasion sequence itself was classic '30s: bluff, feint and grab...
...represent an estimated 25% of Milwaukee's population of more than 600,000, things could hardly get worse. The city leads the nation in black unemployment and teenage-pregnancy rates but ranks at the bottom in black family income among urban areas of its size. In McGee's downtrodden Tenth District, the average annual income is $5,500. "You look at our community and you see a disaster," says Howard Fuller, director of health and human services for Milwaukee County. "Then you look at other parts of the community and you see advancement. You put these two things together...