Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year when he opened up discussions on the alcohol policy to undergraduates and the Undergraduate Council. Throughout the year he went to council meetings and answered questions. He went to dinner at the houses and even lived at the Radcliffe Quad, as if in solidarity with the Quadlings' plight...
...suasion of Mrs. Thatcher that she had to deal with Mr. Mugabe in Zimbabwe. He should get enormous credit; they were absolutely against him," says MacFarquhar. "A minor but important human achievement was persuading Margaret Thatcher to accept the boat people" after visiting Hong Kong to guage their plight...
Shcharansky, who came to symbolize the plight of Soviet Jewry, told Dershowitz that the decision of American activists to focus attention on his case saved his life...
...economic and moral arguments are two very different rationales for divestment. One says that divestment can bring about much-desired change for the oppressed in South Africa, while the other simply asserts it to be a moral necessity. One holds out the possibility of easing the plight of Blacks in South Africa, while the other only holds out the possibility of easing the consciences of those lucky enough to be here in North America...
...Because of the attention that was called to the plight of the Afro-Am Studies Department, the administration really made a serious effort to recruit more Black faculty." From that effort, she says, came Professor Nathan Huggins...