Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meant to flow at Ruggles yet. The decision was overturned on a technicality. A Massachusetts appeals court ruled that the restaurant should have appealed the latest Cambridge denial to the ABCC before it took its plight to the courts. So Ruggles had to start all over again...
...main point of Farm Aid," says Illinois Governor James Thompson, "is to bring the plight of the American farmer to the attention of the nation." Beyond the publicity, however, it is not likely to have much of an impact. The $70 million Nelson hopes to raise would cover little more than one day's interest on the ballooning debt of the nation's farmers, which is currently $213 billion and climbing. "Willie can sing and pluck all night long," says Don Murphy, who sold his 240-acre farm in Henry, Ill., last year because he could not turn a profit...
...faculty and staff at Harvard can participate as individuals in the effort to overcome apartheid. As I indicated earlier, each of us can work for appropriate measures in Washington; the campaign for sanctions legislation affords an apt illustration. As suggested by Amnesty International, we can identify and publicize the plight of political prisoners and hence let the South African government know that the welfare of such prisoners is a matter of international concern. We can contribute money for the defense of South Africans whose human rights have been violated. There are even opportunities to go to South Africa to contribute...
...praised by Reagan and is endorsed by Falwell. A Baptist, LaHaye is lobbying in the capital and also building a network of clergy activists in more than 300 cities. He speaks of Reagan's presidency as , nothing less than God-ordained ("the Heavenly Father looked down and saw our plight") and says a second Carter Administration "might have plunged us into another French Revolution, only this time on American soil." LaHaye advocates a quota of 25% of federal jobs for Christian conservatives and, at the same time, insists that "no humanist is qualified to hold any governmental office...
...support of their "no-more-shelters" stand, these Cantabrigians dug up a nine-year old local statute which limits the number of "community lodgings and personal care lodging houses" to one for every 5000 residents in a neighborhood. Enacted long before Reaganomics exacerbated the plight of the homeless. Ordinance 868 was designed to spread mental hospitals and temporary care facilities evenly throughout the city. But since the regulation became law, not one new shelter has opened anywhere in the city...