Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...callousness that Harvard has shown the unfortunates who must resort to using our excess heat to survive. However, I believe that more people are upset about the cruelly symbolic aspect and unseemliness of the grates themselves, rather than the underlying problems of the security of students and the plight of the homeless...
...plight, post-Turner, shows how escaping a raider can still leave a company seriously wounded. To evade Turner, CBS spent some $1 billion to buy back 20% of its shares. Now the company is selling profitable TV affiliates and its toy division to repay its debt. To further cut costs, CBS fired 74 news-division employees in a single "Thursday massacre" and offered early retirement to 2,000 people...
...South House woman who badn't received any gifts from her real Secret Santa, St. Nick was watching out for her. Peter Seanlon '87 and Dennis Lewis '87 heard of her plight and decided to do something nice...
...least twice. When the Soviet government released film footage purportedly showing the Sakharovs strolling through Gorky last summer, he was actually on a hunger strike in Semashko Hospital, where Soviet doctors resorted to force-feeding him through the nose. The couple tried to get out word of their plight, but their messages were often altered to give the impression that all was well...
Dollars do not bridge the gap between the haves and the have nots. America's youth face the prospect of sinking into the growing ranks of the have nots, a prospect that until now has been avoided by the majority of Americans. Socially, Americans remain indifferent to the plight of the disadvantaged. National service address this indifference by placing the means of social change in the hands of those who will most need mutual interaction in the bleak economic future and who are best able to interact across the ranks of society, the American youth...