Word: plight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disaster points up the plight of Viet Nam's seaborne escapees
...stir discontent among low-income voters, who may see it as pro-business (though a recession would hurt business sales and profits). Yet Vice President Walter Mondale reported to a final meeting Tuesday night that he had found deep and growing concern around the country about the dollar's plight, so that the political impact of a dramatic rescue program might be to help Democrats in this week's election. Carter's advisers, however, fear that the austerity policy will provide a rallying point for opponents in the party who might challenge him in the 1980 primaries. In the President...
...country's Prime Minister, Patrick Roland John, 40, believes the answer to Dominica's plight is in a local brand of socialism. John talks of "the populace of Dominica being able to manage their resources" and of agribusiness joint ventures involving foreign capital, local private investors and government money...
...touches on inflation and the plight of the senior citizen. "One thing I think that we all fear as senior citizens--and I'm well on my way there, I was 59 last week, is what my mother has always said to me, 'Don't put me away,' and I know what she means--we should avoid institutionalization of senior citizens...
Hellman's play depicts the plight of two schoolteachers, Martha Dobie (Jenny Cornuelle) and Karen Wright (Becky Stone), whose school for girls is threatened by the spitefulness of a spoiled, self-centered child who defies the women's sincere efforts to understand her resentment. When the child, Mary Tilford (Patrice Dabrowski), receives a just punishment for a series of rule infractions, she fabricates a tale that the schoolteachers are lesbians, convincing her grandmother (Cynthis Weinrich) to withdraw her and the other girls from the school. The teachers countersuit for slander fails, in part because Martha's aunt (Amy Aquino) refuses...