Word: plight
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Trump heard about Mrs. Hill's plight on a network newscast. With Georgia Businessman Frank Argenbright Jr., he guaranteed purchase of the Hill farm. So far, Trump and friends have raised about $77,000 toward buying 326 acres and the Hill home. He hopes to raise $100,000 more to save the rest of the farm. Before the New York builder called to offer Hill's widow his help, she had never heard of him. Nevertheless, she said, "My heart went pitter-patter." Said Trump: "I wanted to help one lady with one farm. The bigger problem is that thousands...
William Yaeger, the trustee appointed in the Brauers' bankruptcy proceedings, responded immediately that he had "never received such an eloquent description of the financial and economic plight which you, and so many of your neighbors, are presently enduring." He arranged a meeting to answer Margie's questions, and he wrote in closing: "I hope that we can work together to reduce the pain of the bankruptcy...
...Madrid Hurtado and Ronald Reagan had ended with both leaders, who enjoy warm personal relations, agreeing to disagree on most issues. True, since their last meeting in January, the collapse in the price of oil, the major export of Mexico, had pitched the country deeper into its worst economic plight in 50 years. True, the crisis had aggravated pressures on Mexico's northern border and brought tensions between the uneasy neighbors out into the open...
...pilot, Albert Maltret, 50, a salesman for an oil company, was publicizing the plight of Frenchmen who, he said, have been unjustly arrested in Morocco. Maltret said he was mistakenly arrested and jailed for a day last year during a business trip to Casablanca...
Jenco's release, like that of others before him, highlighted the plight of the remaining Western hostages in Lebanon. Among them are three Americans still held by the same group: Associated Press Correspondent Terry Anderson, 38, David Jacobsen, 55, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, and Thomas Sutherland, 55, the university's acting dean of agriculture. Another American hostage, William Buckley, 58, a U.S. embassy political officer, was reported slain by Shi'ite extremists last October, but his death has not been confirmed. In addition to the Americans, there are seven Frenchmen, two Britons, an Irishman, a South...