Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sympathize with the plight of the black executives and with the problems of the black journalists [Nov. 29]. As a Japanese American living in a predominantly white community, I have had to work harder to come in first. The positive side of this drive for recognition is that one discovers a vast pool of potential that would never be tapped if not for the inherent discriminatory nature of our fellow humans...
Brazil stumbled into its plight through the type of doomsday scenario that now haunts the world financial community. The crunch began in September, when small-and medium-size banks in the U.S. and elsewhere refused to increase their Latin American loans in the wake of Mexico's brush with bankruptcy. At the time, Brazil, like Mexico, was borrowing from well over 1,000 banks around the world. In Brazil's case, the length of the list was largely a vote of confidence in the nation's financial management, which was considered to be among the best...
...Never in more than a half-century has the U.S. faced even the faintest threat of political instability or hostility along either of its two long, undefended borders. That prospect, no matter how remote, has inspired a blend of acute concern and well-intentioned sympathy for Mexico's plight. Says U.S. Ambassador to Mexico John Gavin: "We want Mexico to be free, and we want Mexico to be prosperous. Why? Enlightened self-interest...
...around in search of gifts to bring home or, even worse, desperately scouring bulletin boards for cheap rides to Des Moines, cheer up. You're in exactly the same position as a century of Harvard predecessors. But enterprising Harvard Square tradesmen have always been willing to ease the students' plight with their cornucopia of wares--all in hope of augmenting their own Christmas bounties. Here's a sampling of vintage ads--the best of their years--from holiday seasons past...
...Benjamin begins his piece with the timely realization that American Journalism is not "objective"; what he does not clarify, however, is when non-objective came to equal anti-Semitic. Most American journalists suffer from the plight of being American, thus viewing the world from a particular social and cultural bias. This may be a debility when it comes to omniscience, but I think the media's overkill on the Israel-Lebanon issue this summer stemmed more from the American public's fascination with Israel, and to the relatively uncontroversial nature of coverage of Lebanon as compared to the more politically...