Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What has happened to Joe is symbolic of the plight of Black South African journalists," current Nieman Fellow Ameen Akhalwaya said yesterday. "More than any other journalist, he has shown the courage that the award stands for." Akhalways is a political reporter for the South African Rand Daily Mail...
...transient character of Harvard Square labor has allowed the Coop to pay its workers often shockingly low wages, scarcely above the minimum wage for some full-time stockboys and clerks. The plight of older Coop workers is often worse. Forced to cope with high inflation, they can find little comfort in the Coop's low wages. Employees have cited other labor problems: oppressive monitoring, inconsiderate assignment of tasks, and biased promotion procedures...
That was hardly the issue. Impeaching a President was not the same as a parliamentary vote of noconfidence. What Nixon sought in his oblique way was a vote of confidence, an expression of sympathy for his plight, a show of willingness to continue the fight. All he encountered was an embarrassed silence...
...book covers Nixon's foreshortened second term, the period from January 1973 to his resignation in August 1974. This week's excerpt describes the Middle East war of 1973; a nerve-racking confrontation with the Soviet Union that led to a worldwide alert of U.S. military forces; the plight of an Egyptian army trapped in the desert and facing starvation; and Kissinger's now renowned "shuttle diplomacy, "which sometimes involved such intense haggling over the most minute details that he was reminded of nothing so much as "retail rug-merchanting...
...your "Marital Tale of Two Cities" [Jan. 25] you failed to mention the plight of the scallop fisherman who is out to sea for ten to 14 days and home for only five. No letters can be sent. Ship-to-shore phone calls cost more than $7 for three minutes, and the conversation can be heard on scanners throughout the area...