Word: plight
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...Last year I had offers from everywhere, from Merrill Lynch to Bear Stearns to Morgan Stanley, he said. “Half these firms don’t exist anymore—the offer letters I have now are historical documents.” Delle’s plight is hardly unique. This year, hundreds of Harvard students hoping to enter the finance industry are facing the most difficult career and internship marketplace in decades, as the firms remaining on Wall St. are shrinking their workforce and turning away even the most qualified applicants. Signs of the new crunch...
...Animosity is sometimes another word for jealousy,” said Doohovskoy, brushing off the possibility of the pants-less protest generating ill will. To the contrary, Doohovskoy said the protest may spur a “revolution” among houses facing a similar plight. “I think that Eliot is always an inspiration to other houses, who sort of have to follow our lead in a lot of things,” he said, “it’s not their fault. It’s just, you know, we have a great HoCo...
...still got the acrid taste in your mouth from when gasoline prices were at an all-time high or you’ve fallen victim to a housing “crunch,” the Hasty Pudding Theatricals can offer you laughs (and maybe hope) in the plight of diminutive demigod Hugh Bris (Daniel V. Kroop ’10), the pocket-protected protagonist of their 161st performance, “Acropolis Now.” Though it may not be the high-brow piece of musical mastery that one might typically expect to witness at a show with...
...Barmak seeks to show the human side of tragedy. In Osama, about a young girl in Taliban-era Kabul who poses as a boy in order to provide for her widowed mother, he highlights the plight of women under that draconian regime. His awareness of the human side of history was honed early on. At age 5 he was transfixed by a showing of Lawrence of Arabia at his hometown cinema hall in Kabul. He haunted movie theaters after that, taping together remnants of filmstrips to make his own films, which he would then show to his friends in tiny...
...woes have an obvious cause: the public perception is that his administration has failed to come up with strong enough medicine to counteract the country's increasingly dire economic plight. The world's second-largest economy shrank at an alarming annualized rate of 12.7% last quarter, its worst quarterly contraction since the 1974 oil shock. Exports also fell an unprecedented 13.9%, while the unemployment rate shot up to 4.4% in December, reaching levels not seen since World War II. "There is no doubt that the economy is in its worst state in the postwar period," said Economic and Fiscal Policy...