Word: plight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardest kind of cheating to detect involves collusion between employers and employees. Caroline K., a 30-year-old Manhattan secretary who was having personal problems, quit her job last year. Her employer, in sympathy with her plight, listed her as fired, thus enabling Caroline to collect $90 a week in unemployment benefits for 65 weeks (in New York, most employees who quit voluntarily are ineligible for jobless benefits). Unemployment officials insisted that she visit prospective employers regularly. But her former boss had deliberately made Caroline difficult to place by saying that her relatively high salary was for work performed...
...situation obviously calls for more than palliatives-and it extends beyond Detroit. So far, neither President Ford nor Jimmy Carter has placed much emphasis on the plight of the large cities. The outbreak in Detroit-a chilling reminder of the violent riots that resulted in 43 deaths and more than $100 million in damage there in 1967-should signal to both candidates that the cities' cries for help can go unheeded only at grave risk. Aside from America's mayors, however, most politicians seem blithely willing to take that risk. Michigan's Republican Governor William Milliken...
Sheila's plight echoes a refrain common to all of Moore's ten previous novels: when beliefs can no longer comfort, they turn destructive. Since her cloistered upbringing has made Sheila the victim of her own unsuspected passions it can hardly save her from them...
...increasing combativeness of nonaligned conference members is unlikely to alleviate that plight. Nonetheless, the host of their next conference, in 1979, will be Cuba...
...airing this fall. The first-night audience, filing out of the opera house after the performance, was treated to an impromptu epilogue. A young woman in the crowd sprang up on the fountain and before long her voice was resonating across the plaza proclaiming modern woman's plight. Her speech lacked both the wit and charm of Gertrude S. and Virgil T. But it was a spunky gesture, very much in keeping with the crusading spirit of Susan...