Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dershowitz, calling the plight of Shcharansky "a situation of absolute desperation", stressed the importance of American response critical of civil rights violations in the Soviet Union and around the world. The three speakers who followed reiterated that that theme...
...drawn harsh condemnation from much of the West, the equally grave violations of human rights that the U.S.S.R. regularly commits within its own borders have received scant attention. Tonight, in a rally at Holyoke Center starting at 7:30 p.m., the Harvard community has a chance to dramatize the plight of Soviet political prisoners and--just possibly--to induce a more vigorous American response...
...current plight of journalism in the capital has been the subject of a great deal of woeful discourse, as many talented reporters have been reduced to signing on with a publisher who doubles as a brain-washer of impressionable youth...
...solution, to the unemployment problem. Fundamental questions about the trade-off imposed by labor unions between higher wages and extra jobs, or relations between firms and their employees are not discussed. Because Newsweek so rarely takes an editorial position, the agenda does draw widespread public attention to the plight of the jobless. But it does little more than that...
This summer six of them took to various rostrums to bemoan their plight as ultimate arbiters in an overly litigious society. Justice John Paul Stevens objected to the most familiar palliative: a sort of junior varsity Supreme Court to decide those cases that do not quite make the cut. Said Stevens: "Like a new four-lane highway that temporarily relieves traffic congestion, a new national court would also attract greater and greater traffic volumes." Stevens suggested instead shaping such a body into a traffic policeman, with responsibility for selecting the cases the Supreme Court should decide...