Word: plight
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...bargain in good faith. If the FLRA agrees, it could order the controllers rehired. Even if the board disagrees, the controllers may not finally be fired for months. PATCO intends to battle any Government attempts to lump individual appeals together. The fired controllers consider their plight a test of lofty principles, and they remain eligible for retirement and pension benefits until their dismissals are final. So the FAA, the MSPB and the courts face the prospect of hearing as many as 12,000 controllers, each with his own lawyer and his own, slightly different story to tell...
...Star's plight was similar to that of other big-city evening papers, which lost about 20% of their circulation between 1965 and 1979. The flight of city dwellers to the suburbs and the gradual postwar shift from a blue-collar to a white-collar work force have created an audience predisposed to morning papers. Today's reader goes to work later and has less time for reading a newspaper at the end of the day. Although television coverage offers less depth, it can provide much fresher news: many evening papers go to press before midday so that...
Years after the end of the war, the plight of the Viet Nam veteran in this country remains a painful and emotional subject. For the TIME correspondents who worked on this week's revealing cover story it also proved to be the source of a moving assignment. Boston Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand, who covered Viet Nam for TIME from 1972 to 1974, discovered that his war experience provided an important link with the veterans he met. Says Hillenbrand: "For months after leaving Indochina, the innocent whoosh of a water heater could trigger the memory of a rocket attack...
...acrimonious debate over Jacobo Timerman's views [June 22] should not detract attention from the plight of thousands in the jails of Argentina. Quiet diplomacy may suit President Reagan, but we ordinary citizens must call attention to the fact that the detention of many Argentines without charges and for indefinite terms violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Argentina's constitution as well as the conscience of concerned people everywhere...
...measure of this powerfully vicious and powerfully funny satire on Hollywood-undoubtedly the least benign movie about moviemakers ever released -that the only character with completely decent instincts is the runner's faithful dog, who stands by his man to the end, trying to call attention to his plight...