Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iowa girl had first been moved by the Depression-era plight of the Midwestern farmers. On a visit to Cuba in 1935, she chronicled the hopeless resistance to the new Batista dictatorship. The same year she was in Nazi Germany reporting on opposition to Hitler. In Spain in 1937, she witnessed the death throes of the Spanish Republic. Her biographer asks: "What could be a more vivid embodiment of a life lived according to principle...
Those qualities have helped Gregorian prevail over what once seemed a nearly hopeless financial morass. When he arrived, the library was balancing its budget not only by cutting back services but by eating into its $80 million endowment. Then Gregorian began stating his case to potential givers. It was both blunt and plain: the library is necessary and therefore it should be supported. "I have never relied on the guilt or vanity of donors," explains Gregorian. "Charity you give out of pity. Philanthropy is for a higher cause...
...figures soaring: to 5 million in 1960, 9 million in 1970. About half this growth came from a high yearly birth rate (31 per 1,000), the other half from the continuous migration of peasants, who regard all the hardships of the overcrowded capital as an improvement on the hopeless poverty of their country villages. At current rates of growth, the U.N. estimates that Mexico City will house 26 million people by the year 2000. Mexico City's own, gloomier estimate projects an almost unimaginable 36 million at the end of the century-just 16 more years...
...equipment in exchange for Government-backed loans, and so forth. It is an interesting idea, until one recalls the exhausting battles that invariably surround a single corporate bailout, such as that of Lockheed or Chrysler Corp. Moreover, an industrial recovery and reinvestment bill could easily become a hopeless pork barrel by the time lobbyists and horse-trading Congressmen finish with it. Such outcomes trouble many new-generation Democrats. "I am not sure Americans respond well to economic plans with a capital P," says Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis...
...good friend of mine who was with the first wave on Omaha Beach told me, "I was seasick, cold and scared, to the point that I wanted to lie there and die. Then I got mad, not at the Germans but at my superiors for creating such a hopeless situation." This attitude prevailed in the enlisted ranks and was a key to moving the troops forward...