Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reporting the plight of Milwaukee's mentally ill. Bernstein uncovered numerous cases of Medicaid fraud by psychotherapists and social works who were billing the government the services never performed. These accounts let its viveral prosocutions, and the formulicat of a point State City Mudioldd prosecutorial unit. This R. porting carned Bernsloin a second-place in the 1982 Pulitzer Prize category for local news over...
...hours to support her over her former husband and return their verdict: not guilty. A couple of the jurors even jostled among the throngs of supporters to get Foat's autograph after her acquittal. She claimed the outcome was a victory for all women "who have a plight in life...
...publisher asked him to go to the north of England and report on the plight of miners and factory workers unemployed in the drift of the Depression. Orwell spent two months early in 1936 among these people, not drunks and derelicts this time but victims of economic forces beyond their understanding or control. The first half of The Road to Wigan Pier recounts some of their stories. The second half tells Orwell...
...outline, this sounds like a ghetto translation of sex-reversal farce: Tevye meets Tootsie. Yentl mines much judicious merriment from the plight of a girl who wants to prove herself a man but is in love with a man who's in love with the girl she has married. But there are sweet and subtle tones to the comedy. In three versions of the song No Wonder, Yentl muses in derision, then in awe, then in sympathy, on Hadass's domestic graces. Composer Michel Legrand and Lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman have constructed the score as Yentl...
...University should address the problem of alienated undergraduates who withdraw from the mainstream of Harvard academic a faculty member asserts in a recently released report describing the plight of so-called "phantom students...