Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farmers' plight has produced an inevitable ripple effect. Sales of large tractors (they cost as much as $90,000 each) are down 40% from a year ago, and $150,000 combines are selling even more slowly. Some 37,000 workers, about 25% of the total in the farm equipment industry, have been laid off. International Harvester, one of the industry giants, lost $393 million last year and an additional $299 million so far this year. Says Don Goodrich, who hopes to sell his Harvester dealership in Gilmore City, Iowa: "You'll see a lot more dealers trying...
...amidst all the debate about guns and bombs, there is one aspect of our military involvement in Asia that has received scant attention, despite its pressing moral and humanitarian nature. This is the plight of the so-called "Amerasians," the offspring of American soldiers and Asian women, an estimated 80,000 of Laos and Vietnam...
...Stewart B. McKinney (R-Conn) has been concerned about the plight of Amerasians for years. In 1979, he introduced legislation that would ease the restrictions on Amerasians coming to the United States. That bill faltered, but McKinney is trying again, and this time it appears he may have a chance of succeeding. The Amerasian immigration Act--submitted last year--would significantly increase the chances for an abandoned child to come to the United States. The bill would specifically raise the immigration status of the Americans from "non-preferential" to higher categories, classifying them, for example, as sons and daughters...
...museum, located at 6 Divinity Ave., launches what supporters hope will be a new era of greater attention to Semitic studies at Harvard with a special exhibit documenting the plight of the Jewish community in Danzig which was forced to emigrate on the eve of World...
...think that there is little concern for Black South African journalists here in the United States and I hope the award may bring attention to the plight of people like Joe," said Akhalwaya...