Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...captives were allowed only heavily censored accounts of what was going on in the outside world. Stories about Iran and their plight were torn out of magazines, including TIME and Newsweek, that were circulated to the prisoners, but the guards did not censor the tables of contents, so the hostages could tell what stories were missing. Petty indignities continued to the very end. Richard Ode, at 64 the oldest hostage, had his shoes taken away the day he was captured. He shuffled about barefoot or in socks until he was about to board the plane taking him to freedom...
Poland's Plight...
...Europe, France's reception of refugees has been impressively warm and well organized, largely as a result of strong public pressure. Stirred by the plight of the boat people and by their old colonial bonds to Indochina, the French have admitted 71,000 Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese. Indeed, 35,000 of the Indo-chinese in France are not even regarded as refugees, but as French nationals who are entitled to repatriation. The newcomers spend their first months in 41 resettlement centers that provide them with French language lessons, clothing, spending money and other necessities. Jobs, however, have been hard...
...summer, however, the farmers' plight had vastly improved. The drought in the U.S., plus bad harvests in Argentina and Australia, gave farm prices a big boost. The cost of grain suddenly shot up by as much as 50%; at that point, buyers snapped up all of the grain in sight and the result was a bonanza for farmers who had been able to ride out the early months of the embargo. "For the first time in 35 years, I'm out of debt," said Clarence Adams of McHenry, Ill. He had sold 30,000 bu. of corn...
...plight of the European auto industry sounds all too familiar to depressed American carmakers. Sales in 1980 declined an estimated 12%, while Japanese imports climbed nearly 30%. Thousands of workers were laid off or had their hours cut back last year, and losses by major car manufacturers are staggering. France's Peugeot S.A. lost an estimated $33 million in 1980, and BL Ltd. (formerly British Leyland), maker of Triumph and Jaguar, ran $960 million in the red. In fact, BL Ltd.'s very existence depends on its receiving $2 billion in government aid to help pay for development...