Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other kinds of shareholders to sell during a raid, in order to gain a quick profit. They are also readier to hear arguments that focus on the value of corporations when broken into component assets rather than on their worth as ongoing enterprises. A poignant rendition of the managerial plight comes from Andrew Sigler, chairman of Stamford, Conn.-based Champion International, a $5 billion wood-products firm. Some 80% of Champion's stock is now held by institutions, Sigler believes. Says he: "The owners of our stocks come and go within hours. There is no one out there anymore...
...plight of the homeless will be the focus of "Streetwise," a concert first conceived by Harvard students more than three years ago, that will be held in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Cambridge, this evening from 5 p.m. to midnight...
Unwillingly, we find ourselves developing sympathy for a childmolester, as we follow the highly suspenseful course of events which we know is leading him inexorably towards disaster. The enchanter's plight culminates in a surrealistic scene of warped eroticism...
...dismisses as "feminist propaganda" is the study of theories that attempt to account for these statistics. I suppose then that other courses are also "vehicles for propaganda"--including Christian propaganda, Marxist propaganda or secular-humanist propaganda. I would guess that the Afro-American Studies courses are sympathetic to the plight of Blacks; does that make the field less legitimate? One would hope that the new concentration would indeed by objective and worthy of the term "scholarly pursuit." Pauline...
Wiesel's 30 books have ranged from biblical studies to an examination of the plight of Soviet Jews. Indeed, last week he exhorted Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to allow five Soviet Jews, as well as Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov, to emigrate, and this week he is traveling to Moscow to help organize a conference on non-Jewish victims of Nazism. Wiesel has also worked to help Cambodian refugees, the Miskito Indians in Nicaragua and starving children in Africa...