Word: plight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serious charges. Those charges focused on his great and persistent overdrafts at Georgia's Calhoun National Bank, and his frequent use of the bank's plane for personal trips when he was the president or chairman, from 1963 to 1974. Lance went too far, mawkishly equating his plight with that of victims of governmental oppression abroad, the human rights martyrs. No one, after all, has an inalienable right to a high Government job. But he struck chords designed to set off sympathetic vibrations across a scandal-weary nation...
Roxie tricks her husband into providing the lawyer's fee--cash in advance--and Billy shows her how to make herself into a local Patty Hearst. The front page boys hang on every word as the dramatic Flynn moves Roxie like a puppet. He dramatizes the plight of the poor, innocent girl victimized by cruel men, and thrown pregnant into damp country slammer; of course she shot in self-defense as the man threatened to strangle her for refusing to cheat on her beloved husband...
...your debt for making visible and understandable the plight of America's underclass...
Beame's plight had quite a bit to do with that of New York City itself. Last week the city's near ruinous finances -and the part that Beame played in their creation-came crashing back in on the mayor. The cause: publication of a damning 731-page report by the Securities and Exchange Commission on the debacle. The report charged Beame, other top municipal officials, some major commercial banks and Wall Street institutions with misleading the public in order to sell about $4 billion in short-term notes between October 1974 and March 1975. City officials, said...
...assessment of the policy is no better than mixed if Carter's aim is to ease the plight of those suffering rights abuses. In some nations?South Korea, the Philippines, Benin, Chile, Iran and Argentina?a number of dissenters have begun receiving slightly fairer treatment. But elsewhere there has been either no relaxation or?as in the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Rumania?there have been new repressive crackdowns...