Word: plighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to have it weakened. The law is unfair to their business interests, they say. Besides, they insist, the eagle's comeback has much more to do with the 1972 banning of DDT, which weakened the shells of birds' eggs, and with increased public awareness of the eagle's plight than with the law itself...
...Election Day aren't the only reason for the gloom in Washington. With voters also complaining about a do-nothing Congress -- a criticism that is not entirely deserved after the adoption of NAFTA and significant deficit-reduction measures -- much of Washington was concerned last week that Rostenkowski's plight would deprive Congress of a rare power broker who helped push through the 1986 tax-reform bill and NAFTA. "No capital ever has a surplus of politicians with those qualities," the columnist David Broder lamented last week in the Washington Post. "Seeing him brought down . . . is a citywide sorrow...
...would hurt both the Chinese and U.S. economies because Beijing would retaliate against American firms that are creating a multibillion-dollar market in China and in the process penalize the most progressive sector of Chinese society, its burgeoning entrepreneurial class. The anger of the regime might even worsen the plight of ordinary Chinese citizens...
What really distinguishes these pieces is their sorrow -- particularly for the plight of American blacks and society's losers. Kempton measures leaders by their capacity for compassion, summing up the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. with this pronouncement: "A great man is one who knows that he was not put on earth to be part of a process through which a child can be hurt." His eye for the telling detail is never more acute than when rendering a scene of loss. Here he is describing Jacqueline Kennedy and her family entering St. Matthew's Cathedral at J.F.K...
Amherst attempted to capitalize on the speed of its backs and wings but Radcliffe continually proved to be too much for the smaller Minutemen. And in inside play, Amherst's plight was futile. Radcliffe put on a show of power, winning virtually every scrum-down of the game--both Amherst's and Radcliffe's own put-ins. In line-out play it was again the Radcliffe forwards who managed to not only win its own put-ins, but also serve as spoiler for Amherst's attempted...