Word: plighting
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California's fiscal plight is rooted in explosive population growth. During the 1980s, the state's population swelled more than 6 million, to nearly 30 million; almost half of the new arrivals were immigrants, who put huge strains on welfare, health-care and education programs. The crunch was made worse by plummeting tax collections caused by the current recession and by the limits on new levies imposed by Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot measure that cut property taxes and shifted the lion's share of fiscal responsibility from local governments to the state. Wilson has suggested reversing that trend...
Imagine having to hitch a 3,000-mile ride to your job. That is the plight of TWA crew members in Los Angeles who feel stranded by Carl Icahn's decision to sell off the airline's transcontinental routes. Hundreds of Los Angeles-based crews who handle international flights out of New York must sometimes leave a full day early to snare a TWA standby seat. Many employees contend that the commute leaves them too fatigued to do their job, but they see little choice. Why not relocate? "Leave California and move to Queens?" asks an incredulous senior pilot...
...process, Shehabuddin learned much about the plight of her homeland. "You get a sense of what you have and what 50 million people don't," Shehabuddin says of her experience. "And you feel the responsibility...
After the initial shock, however, most randomized students seemed to take their unexpected plight in stride. "When my roomates first saw that we had gotten Adams, everyone sort of started blankly at the wall," Fresco said. "But by lunch they had gotten used to it. One had even changed into a black outfit...
...thinks the Class of '91 faces long-term job troubles. Their plight is purely a result of recession, and they should easily survive a few months waiting tables or typing memos until other employers start hiring again. Still, as they fling their commencement caps skyward, the graduates will surely be silently urging the economy to follow as fast as possible...