Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard can have an immediate positive impact on the plight of the homeless by flexing its not inconsiderable political muscle to lobby the City Council for the repeal of the law. Harvard, too, has a large obligation to the city's homeless...
...After hundreds of billions of dollars in poverty programs, the plight of the poor grows more painful," Reagan said. "But the waste in dollars and cents pales before the most tragic loss: the sinful waste of human spirit and potential...
...recurring accusation against President Ferdinand Marcos is that he, his wife Imelda and their friends have used their power to plunder the Philippines, thereby aggravating the country's economic plight. Opposition Candidate Corazon Aquino played on the issue last week, promising a thorough investigation of the Marcos family's financial dealings if she wins. "The new leadership will exert all efforts to eliminate the social cancer of graft and corruption," she declared. "What belongs to the people will be given back to the people...
...read the last issue of the Crimson it struck me as rather peculiar that three quarters of the editorial page was devoted to the discussion of the grates that Harvard had installed and then removed at Leverett House. Not to belittle the plight of the homeless in Cambridge, that too is a great injustice, but when only one article in the Crimson is devoted to commemorating one of the greatest men in our country's history, something is defintely wrong--with us, the students. You'd think the crime of the century had been commited, the way angry undergrads ranted...
Harvard's first responsibility is to the safety of its students, for my safety. I believed that night that I was going to be physically assaulted. Had I been, students would not be complaining about the plight of the displaced men, but about the lack of security that had allowed two women to be attacked. There would have been an outcry that this security problem had existed for over eight years and no one had tried to ensure the safety of the students. However, the outcry is instead that Harvard has been needlessly "cruel" to the homeless while to trying...