Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news of his wife's plight spread last week, Dukakis seemed to gather sympathy. He stayed for hours at his wife's bedside, looking drawn and hurt as he emerged from the hospital. Perhaps the dutiful husband had endured enough. Even within his own family, patience with Kitty was wearing thin. There was a certain irony to that. Kitty has for months wanted her husband to run for President again. Urgently, she pressed him to keep his mind open about 1992. Now, with her own vulnerabilities so drastically exposed, that goal seemed fainter than ever...
...panel of four conservationists mediated by Richard D. Estes, associate in mammalogy in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, discussed the plight of the African elephant and debated how best to combat its decline...
...Levine says her concern for the plight of frustrated would-be homeowners is also behind her support...
...plight of Latin America's middle and lower classes is a radical reversal from the sunny days of the 1960s and early '70s, when the region's rapid economic growth offered the hope of broad-based prosperity. When the countries' heavy debt burdens triggered inflation and stagnation in the 1980s, most Latin American families began sliding rapidly into hardship. This year Mexico's annual inflation rate is running at 17% (down from 52% last year), Argentina's, 3,500% (up from 388%) and Brazil's, 1,600% (up from 934%). Perversely, the rich have helped perpetuate the economic malaise...
...clinical program in education terms," Clark says. "I don't judge the program's success or failure in terms of cases won or lost, but in the quality of training, and whether the students are really learning ethical responsibility and studying the plight of the poor...