Word: plight
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their latest album, “Sam’s Town,” lead singer Brandon Flowers and his Merry Bunch of Killers have turned musically and thematically towards New Jersey legend Bruce Springsteen, using his brand of proletarian songwriting to illuminate the plight of their blue-collar peers on the mean streets of Vegas...
...simply their own plight that leads the Palestinians to conclude that the U.S. has no policy. "Look at Iraq," says a former Palestinian cabinet minister. "Thousands of working papers were written, and thousands of hours were invested in building capacity, and what was the result...
...first glance, it seems as though we might have reached the point where our leaders’ plight has become so pathetic that they are no longer demagogues who provoke our anger, but tragic figures that engender our sympathy. These characters’ actions are too destructive to be completely sympathetic, leading toward a more cynical interpretation. Humanity is inevitably going to produce human leaders who will provoke terrible consequences, usually due to their mistaken assumptions regarding the necessary actions to preserve their rule...
...Venezuela is also looking abroad to alleviate its housing woes. It has struck a deal with Chinese conglomerate Citic to build 20,000 new houses within two years. Even so, Patricia Duran and her fellow protesters say the housing plight is so dire in Caracas that the Mayor needs to find land where he can - even if it means expropriating golf courses. "If we have to go to that extreme, we have to do it," she said. "I imagine the rich are angry right now, but there's nothing else we can do. It's better if they help...
...background of that story was he was a lonely person--very lost, very lonely. His wife was killed in an accident, and his hate for the bureaucracy made him a renegade. But he truly was obsessed with the plight of the victim, which was his noble side. So, within a story like that, it was easy in those days for people who didn't want to think too much about it to say, "Oh, that's just a guy that's a crazy." But, you know, I just felt there are people like that...