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Stay Pot. The same plight faces the ambitious worker who is stuck in a job that gives insufficient scope to his talents. In better times, he would look for and probably find another job. During recession, he is likely to stay put and may do only enough work to keep on drawing his paycheck. His career is blocked; society misses the enthusiasm that he could bring to a new job and incurs a loss of productivity...
...find them easy to forget or ignore. But Coles fails to examine the complex roots of such conditions, such as language differences, the problems of assimilating a continuing flow of foreign immigrants, and the persistent cultural antagonism between white Texans and Mexican-Americans. With pompous exaggeration, he describes the plight of the Chicano farm worker...
...there is any lesson to be drawn from the 20th century for mankind, we shall give to the West, and not the West to us. Their excessive affluence has weakened their will and their reason." Still, Solzhenitsyn credits the Western press with having focused world attention on his plight...
Major Burden. Still, the plight of those without work would be far worse were it not for federally sponsored and state-administered unemployment insurance programs, which provide three-quarters of the 7.5 million jobless people in the nation with greater cushions of protection than have ever before been available. In the last week of January alone, more than 750,000 people signed up for benefits, bringing the total to 5.6 million-the highest number recorded since the payments began in 1938. The tax-free payments average $62 a week, which is enough to exist on but hardly lavish...
Trying to come up with a word that adequately describes this year's Yale hockey team is not all that easy. About the only thing that comes to mind that really fits the Eli's plight is the ancient Greek phrase deinoteron horan, which literally means "most terrible to look upon," implying something frightfully wretched...