Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After long debate, federal officials decided that Carbondale's unusual plight made it deserving of federal help. The present agreement makes the stricken city an urban redevelopment district. Two million dollars will come from the Federal Government, $1,000,000 from the state. Homes and other real estate in the threatened area (130 acres) will be-bought at fair prices. Then massive dragline excavators will attack the fire by digging huge trenches around the burning coal...
...economic effect of Fidel Castro's promises has been to worsen the plight of the Cuban people...
When great men show scorn for death, it is a love of glory that distracts their minds from the truth; when ordinary men do so, it is because their lack of understanding shields them from the gravity of their plight...
There are thousands of such deserted villages in Algeria today. Their roofless houses and empty streets symbolize the plight of the passive Moslem population caught in the middle of the war's crossfire. The result is a social upheaval in which more than a million Moslems have been uprooted-either fleeing bombs or evicted en masse from "forbidden zones" by French attempts to "sterilize" rebel-infested areas...
...Wholesalers who had previously helped him asked him to take his business elsewhere. Said one: "I like your business, M. Leclerc, but every time I sell you 1,000,000 francs worth of goods, I lose 30 million in canceled orders elsewhere." When things looked black, Leclerc's plight came to official attention in Paris. Economic Minister Antoine Pinay and other high officials saw in his crusade a way to raise French living standards without causing an inflationary wage increase, which they knew would only be soaked up in higher prices. The De Gaulle government used its emergency powers...