Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marcos' call for elections caught Washington flat-footed. The strongman, who suffers from a form of systemic lupus erythematosus, a disease that often affects the kidneys, had grown increasingly withdrawn from the country's plight; he had craftily evaded previous U.S. pressures for reform. Most experts were skeptical that the vote would lead to any significant power shift in Manila. But among many Filipinos, the notion that the balloting might lead to change seemed to take on a life of its own. Philippine voters might even provide the occasion for an all too rare peaceful transition from authoritarianism to democracy...
...OSCAR, FOR all his comic machismo, is not a flat character. He engages the audience so successfully in his plight as the cuckolded husband that he contradicts Wertmuller's purpose. The audience ends up liking Oscar more than the two women, whose romantic efforts and speeches are completely silly. Heck, Oscar's point of view even seems to make sense by the end of the film...
...first visible signs of strife appeared in November. The Dartmouth Community for Divestment (DCD), a heterogeneous group of '60s-style activists, built four shanties in the center of the picturesque Dartmouth Green to symbolize the plight of Black South Africans and to protest the college's South African-related investments...
Please continue your coverage of the issue, but focus your efforts on the plight of the homeless and not on the political bickering between and amongst students and administrators. Eric A. Berman...
...dries up, another kind of wrenching social and political retrenchment is under way among the oil producers, and the risks for world order and stability are unpredictable. If concerned countries, including the U.S., do not act, as Mexico's Silva Herzog put it, with "speed and wisdom," the deepening plight of the former petropowers may lead to upheaval...