Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...human bond. In cities across the nation shelters overflow, leaving the spillage to cope on steam grates or in subway tunnels or wherever else warmth can be found. These street people are the most destitute of the nation's 350,000 or more homeless citizens. To explore their plight, Time Correspondent Jon D. Hull took up residence on the streets of Philadelphia. Some of the people he met, like a former construction worker named George, are still struggling to find a way up. Others, like a former machinist named Gary, seem hopelessly caught in the undertow. Many once led normal...
Camdessus thus becomes a prominent member of the bomb squad that is trying to defuse the explosive Third World debt problem. A former director of the French Treasury, he was favored by debtor nations, which expect him to be comparatively sympathetic to their plight. Ruding, known as a stern fiscal conservative, enjoyed more support among the private banks that have loaned billions to the debtors. The bankers are already uneasy about De Larosiere's last big initiative, a $12.5 billion rescue package for Mexico that called for private creditors to accept a stretched-out payment schedule for about half...
...protests have continued. Western officials have harped on the plight of the Sakharovs as an example of the Soviets' failures in the area of human rights. Many other activists and dissidents remain in prison, internal exile or psychiatric hospitals, to be sure, but none as famous as Sakharov and Bonner. Over the past year, Gorbachev has tried to reverse the Soviet Union's negative human-rights image by releasing two well-known activists, Anatoli Shcharansky and Yuri Orlov. Another, Anatoli Marchenko, 48, died in prison in early December, the victim of a brain hemorrhage following a hunger strike. His death...
Both are true. On the surface, the rich and near rich have more money to toss around, so the values of the age appear callously self-directed. Yet the plight of the poor is a constant subject of concern and speculation, arising regularly in the platforms of both political parties and in public debate. Below the glacial surface of inactivity, real hearts stir on this issue, but they move nothing. This secret of the age has a secret of its own: we embrace all groups but the poor...
...plight of the press in South Africa was already bad enough. Ever since June, journalists had been prohibited from visiting trouble spots. Newspapers had been prevented from publishing photographs of unrest or reporting "subversive" statements by anyone advocating strikes, boycotts or other disruptive activity. Despite such limitations, however, the foreign press still managed to print a good deal about events in South Africa, and domestic publications continued to run critical editorials and articles...