Word: plighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Farooq said he decided to speak at Harvard because of the diversity of students who would be able to hear Kashmir's plight...
Prior to her tour of the United States, which was co-sponsored by Amnesty International, Dekyi sat on the streets of Delhi passing out pamphlets to draw international attention to her son's plight...
...Bailey's 1992 report, How Schools Shortchange Girls, that sparked a national hand-wringing epidemic over the plight of adolescent girls--especially their loss of interest in math and science. Financed by the American Association of University Women, the report surveyed a decade of research and concluded that teachers paid less attention to girls than boys, that textbooks reinforced sexual stereotypes and that college-entrance tests favored boys. A year later, another study documented widespread sexual harassment in schools...
Oppenheim laments the plight of rich white good-looking athletes, who so often need an oasis of stability in their sea of privilege. Having rigorously defended entrenched social privilege, he then lays out a fine analysis of exactly why females actually benefit from the clubs...
WASHINGTON: The plight of the poor isn't usually a passionate concern of the world's bankers. But it's become a recurring theme at this week's IMF conference, which may portend a significant shift in the way the international body lends money. Traditionally the IMF has demanded harsh austerity measures in struggling economies before helping them out, and usually it's the poor who pick up the tab. "There's been a lot of discussion on how the poor suffer most from IMF prescriptions," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. "The IMF is going to have...