Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kidnapping as news fit to print. Yet previously, two long articles relating problems Times correspondents had encountered while reporting in Israel were published--one on May 29, 1979, the other on February 3, 1980 Last year, the Times also ran an article on the front page describing the plight of a correspondent held for a day by authorities in the Soviet Union...
...first seminar, to be offered at PBH in conjunction with Boston's International Rescue Center, will focus on the plight of Vietnamese refugees. They had a very different struggle from the people from Hong Kong and China," Min says. Recalling a time she tutored a group of newly arrived Vietnamese immigrants. Min says she got an unexpected reaction from her students when she brought up the subject of holidays and family gatherings "Half the students started shaking. A lot of them had lost entire families...
Other such examples are abundant. There is scarcely an alumnus of Canaday Hall whose sensibility has not been shaped by the life of Ward Murphy Canaday '07, the designer of the military jeep. In Stoughton Hall, social outcasts have gained perspective on their plight by recalling the legacy of Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton (Class of 1650), who presided at the Salem witch trials...
...talk a more responsible line. Putting their faith in high technology to strengthen the economy, they advocate a, so far, distressingly vague program of tax and investment incentives to spur expansion of rising industries such as semiconductors and computer software, as well as job retraining programs to cushion the plight of workers laid off in declining "smokestack" industries such as steel and autos. As an option for the future, the strategy is well worth debate, presuming that somehow the money could be found, but it is not much help in confronting the overwhelming problem facing the Congress that will...
...organization's current plight is summed up bleakly by Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, who was France's Ambassador to the U.N. from 1970 to 1972 and later Ambassador to Washington. Says...