Word: plighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plight of the Shi'ites is serious, but the note of selfless compassion did not quite ring true. Just 17 months ago, when Saddam was ruthlessly crushing their rebellion in the south, Western leaders stood by and did nothing. At the time, they argued plausibly if heartlessly that an allied intervention risked both a military quagmire and an unstable partition of Iraq that could extend Iran's influence in the region. Neither prospect has disappeared. With Bush in Houston trying to reinvigorate his political fortunes, it was impossible to escape cynical questions about what was for real -- and what...
...work won a Pulitzer nomination, a George Polk Award, the Gerald Loeb Award and the Worth Bingham Prize. Since bringing his energies to TIME, he has chronicled the illegal trade in elephant ivory, brought attention to the endangered spotted owl, documented corruption in college basketball and scrutinized the plight of West Virginia coal miners...
...support for the pact and even spoke of reviewing their position on the agreement to combat global warming. At summit headquarters trivialities and private agendas derailed serious debate over the plan of action called Agenda 21. Arab delegates pushed for oblique references to emotional and irrelevant issues like the plight of Israel's occupied territories, while oil states worked to strip out any language implying that petroleum might be bad for the environment...
...crumbling U.S. infrastructure and the declining competitiveness of American corporations, that Bartley tries to dismiss. Did the budget deficit swell menacingly in the '80s, for example? No problem! Japan and Germany had lots of red ink too, and "advanced" economists doubt that deficits even matter. Did the plight of the poor worsen? Not really, Bartley argues. The data for low-income households overstate the extent of poverty by counting many retired people -- who often own their own homes and have plenty of capital -- along with college students who get aid from their parents...
...seems hopelessly naive -- and not just in Los Angeles. The high expectations that greeted the election of thousands of African Americans to local, state and federal offices over the past three decades have been displaced by frustration. By every statistical measure from joblessness to out-of-wedlock births, the plight of the poorest blacks has deteriorated in nearly all the cities that blacks control politically. Black elected officials and black voters alike have discovered the harsh limits of their power. As the violence in L.A. showed, many of them remain as alienated from the political process as they were...