Word: plight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With soaring costs and double-digit truancy, increasing illiteracy and steadily falling Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, many American high schools are clearly in trouble. This week's cover story examines the plight of U.S. secondary education today and profiles three high schools not burdened with the special, severe social problems of the inner cities...
...testing their wings'?" I hope those are not the only two options because we are, on the whole, neither. The problem with Mr. Fried's article arises from his tone. All those condescending remarks about freshmen do not aid his credibility as one who truly cares about the plight of first-year students. As a matter of fact, the overall impression is left that Mr. Fried is much more concerned about the level to which changes in freshman life inconvenience upperclassmen. Clearly, freshman year as it is now set up is not perfect. But the continuing effort to improve...
...seeks to overthrow conservative Arab regimes. Active membership: about 3,500 guerrillas. Terrorist exploits: skyjackings, bombings, an occasional tour de force such as the capture of more than 80 people who were held hostage in their Amman, Jordan, hotel rooms for two days in 1970 to dramatize the Palestinian plight...
...expects to be a loser again this year. "I have the best crop I ever raised," he laments, "and it's going to cost me $15,000." Only an upsurge in prices or federal subsidies can bail him out, a plight all too typical of thousands of small farmers throughout the country...
...immigrants try to cash in on the country's plight...