Word: plighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bush oozed economic empathy at every stop. Rejecting suggestions that he was out of touch with the plight of average Americans, he repeatedly insisted, "I care very much about the people that are hurting in this state." He noted seven times in nine appearances that the first floor of his ancestral summer home in nearby Kennebunkport, Me., had been clobbered in a freak hurricane last October. "When a storm hits the seacoast here," he said in Portsmouth, "it hits...
...thanks, guys--I was in danger of forgetting the plight of the blue whale until you thoughtfully reminded me. Or maybe the proceeds go to Greenpeace...
...Vietnamese investigators, the contrast between the money and effort being spent to resolve the cases of American MIAs and the grinding poverty in most of the search zones is emotionally wrenching. Moreover, many Vietnamese families share the plight of the families of American MIAs. In an exclusive interview, Vietnam's new Prime Minister, Vo Van Kiet, described his own suffering: "There are tens of thousands of Vietnamese families whose relatives are also missing and unaccounted for. I myself am a victim. My immediate family has three members -- my wife and two sons -- missing in action. American helicopters killed 300 people...
...means certain that such largesse can quash the Buchanan threat. Governor Gregg argues that "the President has already overcome the initial hurdle" by showing he really understands New Hampshire's plight. But his father Hugh Gregg, a former Governor now running Bush's campaign in the state, concedes that "some of my best friends, good Republicans," are angry enough to consider a protest vote against Bush. Another hazard for Bush is that many orthodox Republicans might simply stay home, increasing the proportional clout of conservative ideologues who are Buchanan's strongest supporters. A poll published by the Concord Monitor last...
...always thought it would be. Because to an extent I've been a hostage to the hostage situation. Whenever people have tried to make my case very public, to debate it very noisily, it has been suggested that to do so would be to prolong the hostages' plight. Now, since the hostages are out, I am able to speak more freely...