Word: plight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frei and other critics have been careful to limit their statements to the economy, but they contain an implicit political criticism as well. Indeed, secret-police repression has discouraged many foreign governments from helping Chile overcome its economic plight...
...agony. About a million, or 5%, of the nation's elderly already live in nursing homes, too many of which are grim warrens for the unwanted. Tragically, the population of the nursing homes is growing. But so, too, is the public's concern over the plight of the old. Americans have yet to come up with the answers, but more and more are at least asking themselves the question that most must face sooner or later: What do we do with our parents...
...alleviate the financial plight of the elderly, experts recommend placing a reasonable floor, pegged to the actual cost of living, under retirement incomes, either by increasing Social Security benefits or supplementing them from other state or federal funds. They also recommend reforms in both Government and private pension systems, to assure that all workers who contribute to a pension plan will derive at least some benefits from...
...financial plight of Mayor Abraham Beame's New York City is so grim that even far-out jokes have a certain plausibility. Somehow, before the end of the fiscal year on June 30, the city must raise a staggering $1 billion to meet its payroll and operating expenses and pay off its notes and bonds. Yet so shaky is its credit that it may not be able to raise the money-with the prospect of skipping payday for city employees or even defaulting on its obligations. The one fleeting hope for a painless solution came crashing down last week...
Ford Money. Much of the blame for the center's current plight lies with Hutchins, who firmly believes in sparing no expense in the pursuit of knowledge. Despite initial backing of $4 million, supplied by the Ford Foundation from money originally granted to the Fund for the Republic, and subsequent bequests that totaled some $26 million, the center's annual expenses often exceeded income-and unrestricted gifts were never put aside for endowment. Hutchins gave the up to 20 resident fellows-many of whom were often absent from the center-annual stipends of as much...