Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seiderman added that recent international events, such as the plight of the boat people and the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, attract much of the model U.N.'s attention. One group of delegates calling themselves the United Islamic Liberation Front for Afghanistan, tried to gain "observer status...
...plight of the American city has grown worse since Carter took office. Devastating fiscal crises have recently pushed Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Detroit, Memphis and many other cities dangerously close to bankruptcy. More tragically, poverty persists for millions of urban dwellers. One out of three children born in New York City, for example, are born out of wedlock--many to adolescent mothers whose welfare checks form their only source of income. But New York's financial woes have made it impossible for that city to increase its welfare payments since 1974 with the effect that inflation has eaten away half...
FANCY: Now that the world has been alerted to Cambodia's plight and huge amounts of food are being channeled into the country, there will soon no longer be a need for an aid effort...
...forays to Iowa and New England, she continued to perform her extraordinary role as the President's most trusted adviser. Around the White House she is known as a "Brzezinski-liner" because she has long shared the security adviser's hawkish views, both on the Soviets and on the plight of the American captives in Tehran. She has warned that Soviet assurances of future cooperation should be mistrusted. She has also argued that persuasion has no effect on the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, and as far back as when the hostages were first seized, she favored blockading Iran's ports...
...WOJTYLA GO HOME and WOJTYLA EQUALS KHOMEINI. The gibes at John Paul II were signs of the tension surrounding a meeting beginning inside the palace. In official Vaticanese, it was a "Particular Synod." In reality, it was an unprecedented personal intervention by a Pope to deal with the sorry plight of the Catholic Church in Holland, where the 5.6 million Catholics make up 40% of the population. The bishops are squabbling, attacks on Vatican policy are endemic, and church vitality is ebbing...