Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the conservatives on the need for family protection and the dangers of abortion. But criticizing the groups' other views, Sider says: "If human life is sacred then surely this means something about the nuclear arms race, too. In Scripture, the social question mentioned most often is the plight of the poor." Agrees Jim Wallis, editor of the radical Sojourners magazine: "In the activities of the Christian right, all that remains of Jesus is his name." But Christian Voice's Richard Zone is unabashed. Says he: "It's time for godly folk to have an input into...
...there's not enough oppressiveness here, not enough love wrestling with the frustration. We have no sense of a 25-year relationship between husband and wife, or of what must have been deep affection between father and daughter. As a result, much of the poignancy of George Riley's plight goes by the wayside. It is an unfortunate letdown of first-act expectations...
...Rumors circulated that the Shah had even felt fit enough to play a round of tennis a few days earlier in Panama. After Sadat emerged from a brief courtesy call to the Shah's third-floor suite Tuesday morning, he sounded relatively sanguine about the Shah's plight. Said the Egyptian President, grinning confidently: "He is running a high fever today, but he is in the good hands of my capable Egyptian doctors...
...plight of Harvard undergraduate Emeka Ezera, arrested in the Park Street station for allegedly snatching a purse the night before while he was actually researching a paper with the staff of Lamont Library deserves our attention and support. The Harvard community should and must rally around one of its own in a time of financial and emotional need. Boston's court system and police force must be made to realize that there is some accountability for mistaken identity...
HOUSTON--A faculty council report at Rice University two weeks ago declared that "it is a practical impossibility for an assistant professor to support a family on a Rice salary," and that "that the plight of associate professors at Rice is, if anything, even more grim...