Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knighted by Queen Elizabeth in June 1978, tried in vain to get help. Last Sir Freddie Thursday he phoned Iain Sproat, Britain's Under-Secretary for Trade, to warn that without government aid, his airline would crash. Later that day Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher discussed Laker's plight with several Cabinet members, but chose not to bail out the carrier. Early next morning, at a tense meeting with his board of directors at Gatwick, Laker called it quits...
...that the University will allot interest from that money where it can benefit undergraduates most. We remind those responsible for dividing it up that it they do not look out for the interests of those students who are not wealthy, no one else will. The College must consider the plight of such applicants its special and foremost responsibility--and do its best to to channel funds not earmarked elsewhere into student...
...labor union rallies in Chicago and West Germany; President Reagan and a dozen other heads of state to deliver speeches; and a New Jersey native-Frank Sinatra-to sing Ever Homeward, in Polish. According to the ICA, the program aimed to "reflect the widespread international concern for the plight of the people of Poland." ICA Director Charles Wick, who once worked as an arranger for the late Tommy Dorsey's band, dreamed up the project shortly after the imposition of martial law. He rejects suggestions that a television spectacular, however heartfelt, was an inappropriate response to military repression. Says...
...Builders, the mood was distinctly chilly. In the past two years, sky-high and gyrating interest rates have pitched the American housing industry into its worst sales slump since 1946. Now a rising chorus of critics in the Administration and Congress has begun blaming Volcker for housing's plight and for the recession that is spreading through the economy...
...lately Billy has been sleeping in a bed. He is warm and comparatively safe at night because a young lawyer named Robert Hayes saw the plight of the city's homeless and decided to do something. Because of his relentless efforts, the city now provides more than 3,500 homeless people with shelter each night...