Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 4, 1968 was a day of crucifixion," Jackson said. "I hope that April 4, 1985 will be a day of resurrection. I hope that day we will roll the stone away" and begin making progress toward improving the plight of minorities in the white-ruled country
...positions is not, as some on both sides of the debate would have us believe, one of morality (divestiture) versus pragmatism (conditional investment). The fact that we discuss our policy towards that country at all means that we are, to some extent, hit in the jugular vein by the plight of South African Blacks and coloreds. But our outrage at the immorality of apartheid does not cloud our conviction that divestiture is the best practical way Harvard can bring about substantive change in that society...
...that I don't care. Like most citizens--not just liberals, but those across the entire political spectrum--I am deeply concerned about the plight of Blacks in South Africa. And I guess that, when asked, I probably even support Harvard's divestiture from all companies doing business in that nation...
...have been crying wolf for so long that their city cousins have mostly stopped listening. But along rural back roads last week, the expressions of anguish seemed genuine. Farmers sometimes differed about the causes of their distress, but they shared a frustration, almost a sense of shame, about their plight...
...could hear that message echo in the Congress last week from another Illinois man--Ronald Reagan. His State of the Union message was a hymn to freedom. Reagan has taken notice of the farm plight and so has Washington, and there will be a mighty bureaucratic effort to hold on to this portion of our national heritage. But deep, painful change is coming no matter what Ronald Reagan does...