Word: plight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardship endured by the families harboring hard-core gamblers has fostered two G.A. offshoots, Gam-Anon for addicts' spouses and Gam-A-Teen for their children. Gam-A-Teen sponsors weekly meetings where children as young as nine bolster one another emotionally concerning their parents' plight...
...easiest marks in town. Except in a few cases, police statisticians do not have a separate category for crimes against the elderly. But law-enforcement officials across the nation are afraid that such crimes may be growing in number and becoming more vicious in nature. TIME correspondents surveyed the plight of the elderly in three cities. Their reports...
...police are convinced that some progress is being made; but it is painfully slow. So far this year, although some 600 apartment robberies have been investigated in The Bronx, only 82 arrests have been made. Voluntary agencies do what they can to ease the plight of the elderly, but the scope of the problem is overwhelming...
...Unless there's some crisis or famine, the plight of hungry people around the world is forgotten," Stephanie Berry '79, another fast organizer, said last night...
MAYBE HOROVITZ'S PLAY qualifies as social realism, exposes the plight of urban youth, lays a slice-of-life on you--pick one of the above and man your stations, please. Your assignments should be pretty clear: each critic prises a skein of dialogue from the script and analyzes its relevance from the vantage of the ideological crow's nest he has shimmied into...