Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stop until the day I leave. Such is the lot of Detroit bureau chiefs." Seaman was posted to Detroit two years ago. Since then TIME has devoted 61 stories to the troubled automobile makers. For this week's cover story on the present plight and future prospects of the nation's most important industry, Seaman could draw on familiar sources, including the top executives of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. One whom he knows especially well: Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca. Seaman is the co-author of a forthcoming book on the ailing auto firm and its new chief...
General Motors Executive Vice President Roger Smith, the expected successor to Chairman Thomas A. Murphy, who will retire at the end of the year, likens the industry's present plight to a hockey team in the midst of a line change. As soon as all the players are out on the ice, he says, the team will be competitive again. But others are less sanguine. Says David Cole, an engineer and auto expert at the University of Michigan: "It is indeed possible that the relative importance of automobile manufacturing in the U.S. economy will be downgraded for many years...
...Morgan is a convicted kidnaper with little hope of leaving the maximum security prison at Stillwater, Minn., until the mid-'90s. During the early years of his sentence, he whiled away the days shuffling papers in an office and worrying about the financial plight of his disabled wife. Nowadays Morgan (not his real name) serves his time much more productively. Thanks to a 40-hour-a-week job as a computer programmer with a company set up inside prison walls, he has been able to buy a $50,000 house for his wife, and he sends home enough money...
They are, in all their faces and feelings, the unemployed American workers of 1980. And, as the recession rumbles on and their numbers grow, their plight has become a major presidential campaign issue. The Department of Labor reported last week that the jobless in the U.S. have increased to 8.2 million, a startling jump from the 6.3 million without work in February. Now 7.8% of the American labor force sit on the sidelines of business, and Carter Administration economists predict that the rate will reach 8.5% later this year and stay there through most...
...York City, the General Assembly met in an "emergency session" - only the seventh in the U.N.'s 35-year history- to consider the plight of the Palestinian Arabs. Under discussion was a draft resolution, sponsored by a number of Arab and other Third World nations, that would endorse the right of Palestinians to form their own sovereign state and that would order Israel to retreat to its pre-1967 boundaries. On previous occasions, emergency sessions had been called to deal with fast-breaking crises, such as the North Korean invasion of South Korea in 1950 and the outbreak...