Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such scenes of human displacement and despair had become appallingly commonplace in Lebanon in the aftermath of the Israeli blitz. To look into the plight of the civilians who were in the path of the invasion, TIME sent four journalists into the area: Beirut Correspondent Roberto Suro, Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy, Cairo Correspondent Robert C. Wurmstedt and Reporter Leroy Aarons. Their combined report...
...franc's plight has been aggravated by the persistent strength of the dollar. As high U.S. interest rates draw funds into greenbacks, the dollar last week rose to its highest against the Japanese yen in several years, and set postwar records against the French franc, Italian lira and Canadian dollar. According to a closely watched indicator published by the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., the dollar's trade-weighted value is now higher than it was in 1970. Fulfilling an agreement reached at Versailles, the Reagan Administration last week broke with its free-market doctrine, selling dollars in foreign...
...with a lovable little Damon Runyon-type character named Don Elbaum, who once made a flourish of presenting Sugar Ray Robinson the first gloves he ever wore at Madison Square Garden; Robinson was moved to tears, until both gloves turned out to be righthanded. "Confusion is a promoter's plight and his ally," says King, who is co-promoting the show with Sam Glass and Tiffany Promotions from Cooney's side. "There's something you should know about boxing: lying is commonplace...
...warning of the company's plight came in February, when American Airlines, bleeding from a deep 1981 fourth quarter net loss of $20.3 million, canceled its plans to buy 15 Boeing 757 planes, an order worth about $600 million. Although American earned a profit for the year of $47 million, that was still not enough to begin buying new planes...
...isolation combined with a concern that GSAS was being "dwarfed" by other, more formidable Harvard graduate institutions--the Law. Business and Medical Schools--first prompted Marshall to join the GSC in his second year of graduate school. Marshall has a favorite anecdote that illustrates what he sees as the plight of the GSAS student...