Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iacocca was presiding over Chrysler's press briefings in what he dubbed "the gloom and doom room" because of the bad news he was forced to report every quarter. He had made his second cover appearance in 1980 as a symbol of the auto industry's plight. Two and a half years later, when Iacocca had turned Chrysler around, he was on the cover again. "Iacocca was by then referring to the pressroom as 'the boom-boom room,' " Witteman remembers...
...country to be solely in bettering their economic and political position. The book is not so much a clarion call for equal rights for women, but rather a blueprint for a myriad of social changes. In contribution after contribution, the activists express a need for greater attention to the plight of oppressed minorities within their societies, for a more equitable distribution of income, for an end to the nuclear arms race, and for a greater respect for the indigenous cultures of Third World peoples...
Last week President Reagan read about Colf's plight and tried to reach him at the Kerrigan home. The President, Kerrigan says, said that Colf should throw future solicitations "in the trash" and called him "a great American...
...Colf's plight came to the attention of his granddaughter, Judy Kerrigan, 36, who lives in Reseda. She recovered about $1,400 of his contributions from such beneficiaries as Voters for Reagan and Americans for Reagan. But other groups failed to reply to Kerrigan's entreaties...
CESAR CHAVEZ, the head of the United Farm Workers (UFW), was in town this week to drum up support for a new grape boycott. It seems the governor of California, George Deukmejian, has turned a deaf ear to the plight of the impoverished--in some cases, starving--laborers, in sharp contrast to the open-arms policies of Chavez old friend, former governer Jerry Brown. Chavez objects specifically to Deukmejian's recent line-veto of an appropriation by the state congress which was to speed up the collection of millions of dollars in back pay owed the workers. But that issue...