Word: plight
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Each week TIME brings readers stories and pictures of major news events, but our editors also strive to present the quieter, more slowly developing trends and realities that affect our world. The plight of young black men in America is one such undercurrent, and in this issue we explore the subject at greater than usual length...
...ghettos and the poverty cycle, noted Chicago Bureau Chief Jack White, has concentrated on teenage mothers and the children they were raising, to the exclusion of the men who were the fathers. White was convinced that the story of these young men needed to be told. To put their plight in context, White spoke with a dozen scholars who have studied the under class and drew on his own firsthand knowledge as well: "Some of the guys I went to high school with are in jail now. Some have been strung out on drugs. Some have been killed...
HUPA also posted flyers around the concrete stadium and distributed leaflets bearing similar messages at a total cost of $300. "This is part of our continued campaign since the 350th celebration to reach out and touch the Harvard community and make them aware of our plight," Parenteau said...
Temperatures last week plunged to record lows in much of the country, bringing the plight of the homeless, both old and new, to an early crisis as shelters everywhere brimmed over with people escaping the cold. Some could not escape: in Kansas City two homeless men were found frozen to death, one in a portable toilet at a downtown parking lot, the other in a construction-site trailer...
...sure, the plight of the hostages presented Reagan with an excruciating dilemma. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, on a visit to New York City last week, summarized it to TIME editors this way: "I think that every democracy is occasionally facing a contradiction in values. On one hand, you are decided to fight terrorism. On the other hand, you must remain concerned for the lives and safety of individual people . . . What is the balance...