Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked to elaborate, a proponent of the Forgotten Undergraduates Theory would blame faculty members for his plight, explaining that they're all either trying to publish, or making pots of money doing consulting work, or off skiing in Gstaad. The system for rising through the academic hierarchy here does not, after all, reward teaching ability...
...that a call for individual or even community action so often results, in fact, in no action at all. Whatever the problem, it is left for the Government to solve. Americans hesitate to acknowledge that perpetually passing the buck to Government may not indicate an enlightened concern with the plight of our fellow citizens so much as an easy way for an individual or a community...
Despite Amnesty's limitations, there is no denying the gains it has scored for political prisoners throughout the world. No other organization addresses itself directly to the plight of those who, in Pavel Litvinov's words, "know the feeling of being abandoned...
...fate of the statues aptly symbolizes the plight of the remaining whites, who have been given 90 days to decide whether to stay and accept Mozambican citizenship or get out. In one residential area of the capital, fully half the houses once occupied by whites stand empty; remaining neighbors dutifully switch on lights in unoccupied homes every night to discourage looters. One apartment in every three in white areas is for rent or for sale, but there are no takers. Before the coup in Lisbon 15 months ago, there were 220,000 whites in Mozambique, including 80,000 troops; today...
...nurse's aide, I would probably be as unconcerned about the plight of our aged as most 22-year-old Americans. However, since I spend my day shaving someone's grandfather, dressing someone's mother, taking someone's third cousin to the toilet, feeding someone's great-aunt, and trying to communicate with someone's father who has suffered a stroke, I often wonder who will be doing these things for me when...