Word: plight
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...frequent business trips in India, his flight often approaches its destination only to have the pilot announce that the plane will have to circle the airport for a while-not because there's bad weather or a mechanical glitch, but because of congestion on the ground. Mehta's plight is shared by thousands of his countrymen. Thanks to India's economic prosperity and the booming growth of its airline industry, more Indians are flying today than ever before. But they are enjoying it less, because more than half of all domestic flights are now delayed by 30 minutes or more...
...Though I see homeless people on a regular basis, I still have not become desensitized to their plight. I still feel awkward when they ask me for money and I am not able to give. I feel a certain tension when I walk past them, wanting to help them, but knowing that I can’t take away their problems by simply giving them some spare change...
...particular lender, federal legislation would only provide a temporary bandage to a growing wound. Thankfully, Harvard has not been mired in this controversy; the College does not even have a preferred lender. But as students at a university where all is well, we should not ignore the plight of students being swindled across the country...
Ultimately, the plight of Mather House is the interest of all fun-loving students at Harvard. Two houses (namely, the host of the failed “Glowell” rave and the home of a tower which seems prepubescent next to Mather’s 18-story Goliath) have already threatened a counter-revolution, but this historic moment is a greater opportunity for teamwork than for animosity. Houses should join together with Mather in celebration of the great and often suppressed rights of Harvardians: hedonistic pleasure, political self-determination, and foam parties...
...ever for China's artificial breeding program. But environmentalists now wonder how necessary the breeding is. Back in 1975, with the pandas near extinction, China set aside 10 nature reserves for the bears, covering almost 2.5 million acres. That move, plus years of global publicity for the panda's plight, has helped China's wild panda population grow to a stable 1,600 bears...