Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been waging a rear-guard action to stop the deregulation of interest rates. In October they blocked a plan to lift the level that they pay on passbook accounts from 5.5% to 6%. The thrifts argued that such a move would cost them $500 million annually and make their plight even worse...
...parade-ground bluster and actually killing for a principle. He doesn't intend to send the youngsters on a suicide mission, but he is the first one to talk about footholds and not giving in without a fight. Before things get out of hand, Scott interprets Bache's personal plight as an obsolete relic with considerable compassion; this is not an evil man, merely one who has let vague notions of glory replace rationality and skepticism...
...Boston area, the activist groups against sterilization abuse, such as CESA, which recently disbanded, and the Massachusetts Childbearing Alliance, have sought to familiarize the public with the special plight of poor and Third World women...
Duncan yesterday criticized several newspaper accounts of Webster's plight, which he said described her as "naive...
...King, one of five managers for the varsity football team, describes the plight of Harvard's student-managers best when she says: "If all the travel, hotel, food, and equipment accomodations are running smoothly, nobody notices us, but when any problems come up, that's when we start getting attention." King, a three-year veteran who during the season works up to 40 unpaid hours a week as head manager for the gridders, adds, "managers often work three full years before they get a letter...