Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fundamentals: "Before Republicans can begin to mold America as we would like it to be, we must first recognize America as it is." Brooke's views of the U.S. largely echo Lyndon Johnson's. He lists the three great domestic problems as poverty, civil rights and the plight of the cities. At the risk of being accused of me-tooism, he urges Republicans to devise remedies that surpass the Great Society's in both volume and efficacy...
From three years ago, however, there is an erstwhile freshman goalie named Ron Wilson who had given up the game until he got wind of Coach Bruce Monro's plight. He is literally all that stands between Harvard opponents and an open...
...meet its $4 billion annual budget, last week was contemplating a whole new set of taxes (see U.S. BUSINESS). Yet, as Weaver points out, "if you start talking about putting on extra taxes, you may further accentuate the trend toward businesses leaving the central city and make its financial plight even worse than it was before. The whole notion that the city can lift itself by its own bootstraps is a snare and a delusion." Thus cities have no recourse but to go hat in hand to the Federal Government, which has taken billions in taxes from them and returned...
Early in 1965 almost every significant political leader in Massachusetts agreed that the state needed more than $200 million in additional annual revenues. Now, twelve months later, the financial plight of the Commonwealth is even more pressing; yet these same leaders continue to bicker among themselves, unable to agree on an equitable tax plan to raise the vitally needed funds...
...pledge to surrender my rice ration for the people of Kerala. I also pledge not to eat or serve rice until the food situation there is normal." That was Indira Gandhi's way of showing her sympathy last week for the plight of South India's most populous state...