Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There will continue to be amazement at glaring in equalities, and of course there should be indignation over the plight of the millions of Americans who are either unemployed or existing in poverty. But even if the situation of these worst-off is ameliorated, as it should be, it is likely that the whole system of who makes what and why in America will always seem a puzzle...
...rehash the anecdotal biographic ramblings of Robert Heilbroner's The Wordly Philosophers, so familiar to Ec 10 veterans; the careful reader will learn of the romantic lives of thinkers from Marx to Veblen. By the close of the work Galbraith has looked at the problem of overpopulation the plight of the city, the multinational corporation, the normally UGE (the H is silent amythical, but representative corporate monster, and the prospects for world peace...
Mayer uses the plight of the aging comic-book hero to parody most of what characterizes America and everything that makes up New York. Shortly after the novel begins, chaos strikes the bankrupt Metropolis. The unpaid and overworked police force have resigned en masse and looting, rape and murder pervade. Brinkley, watching football, curses his bookie and tries to ignore the city's crisis until the fateful thought strikes him, "Is it a conspiracy?" Needless to say, it is. And Brinkley plunges into a crisis of conscience. Should he leave the repose of his suburban home, his loving wife...
Ross said many Americans believe the battle to improve the farm workers' plight ended in 1975, with the passage of a California law allowing the UFW to organize farm workers and to hold free elections to determine union representation. "The struggle is not over," he said, adding that large farm owners still sometimes use armed guards to intimidate picketing union members...
...availability of management training programs in the finance industry has lessened the plight of liberal arts graduates, but most job hunters with a Harvard degree are not looking for positions in personnel or sales management, Ginn added...