Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plight of the refugees worsens, their anger grows. Most are furious at the successive Portuguese governments that agreed to grant Angola independence. Few differentiate between Communists, Socialists and other left-wing parties in Portugal. Luis Galvào Lopes, 39, formerly an Angolan office worker, spoke for many refugees last week when he cursed the former Portuguese high commissioner for Angola, Admiral António Rosa Coutinho, calling him "Red Rosa" and the carrasco (executioner) of the refugees. What about a moderate like Socialist Leader Mário Scares? "The garbage is all the same," he answered...
According to Presidential Assistant L. William Seidman, Ford decided to speak out because "the possibility of default was becoming a greater threat, and no one wanted to talk about what would follow." In his tough speech Ford blamed New York's plight on "bad financial management" over the past decade, during which the city's expense budget tripled to more than $12 billion. He warned that a loan guarantee would set "a terrible precedent." Moreover, he said that the primary beneficiaries of a bailout would be "officials who would thus escape responsibility for their past follies...
...Eastern liberal, even though he has swung sharply to the right in recent years on welfare, drug use and other issues. His stand on New York further alienated the conservatives, stepping up the pressure on Ford to dump him in 1976. Moreover, New York's plight tarnishes his creative if extravagant record as Governor from 1958 through 1973 because New York State must share the blame for the city's financial mess. As Governor, Rockefeller could have blocked some of the financing gimmicks, such as unsound short-term borrowing, that got the city in trouble...
Defiled goods are not worthy of their owners; for this reason, raped women have often been rejected by their husbands and abandoned by their families (the plight of the women of Bangladesh is a prime example). In some cultures, like that of the ancient Hebrews, victims shared the terrible fate of their attackers--being stoned to death or bound and tossed into a river to drown. Women were double losers--degraded to the status of object, yet responsible for what befell them, protectors of what object-seekers sought. And women remain double losers, though in a far more subtle...
Moreover, New York's plight cannot be viewed in a vacuum; we mus recognize the impact of the national economy on it and other cities. New York is now one of the most expensive places in America to live. And the city's deficit is by far the highest, but not because municipal union workers have demanded too much money--although admittedly, some of the union's pension policies need reforms--but because of an economy besieged by inflation, due in part to massive defense spending and unrestrained monopoly corporations' continual price raising...