Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposition. A recent Boston magazine "expose" of the treatment center for SDPs described at length the violent sexual acts of two treatment center inmates, then closed with a lament that SDPs have enormous trouble gaining the community's acceptance after they have left the center. Such articles ignore the plight of the majority who are not incorrigible and allow people to harbor misconceptions about who inhabits our prisons and what can or cannot be done to help them...
...Jackson, along with 76 Senate cosponsors, tacks an amendment onto the trade-bill legislation prohibiting most-favored-nation status for any "non-Market-economy country" that limits the right of emigration-a scarcely veiled allusion to the plight of Soviet Jewry. A similar amendment is introduced in the House by Ohio Congressman Charles A. Vanik...
Given the complexities and uncertainties of the U.S. condition, the program may go too far in some directions and not far enough in others. There are no proven remedies for the plight of the economy. Ford failed in his first efforts last fall, and has been forced to retreat from the positions and programs he espoused then; he could be wrong again, and, in any case, it is not yet clear that all of his measures will pull in the same direction...
...this time the network was in serious trouble too. Many of the centers were struggling to stay alive, an experiment to use an inflatable bubble as a campus in Columbia, Md., was a bust, and deficits were mounting. Despite the financial plight of the satellites, they were assessed a special tax of 1% of their budgets last year to keep the campus at Yellow Springs afloat...
India suffered more than any other nation. Its oil import costs hit $1.6 billion, up fivefold in two years, leaving it little money to import food and fertilizer, machines and medicine for its hungering millions. Pakistan's plight was almost as critical; its imports of oil and fertilizer topped $355 million. Sri Lanka's rice farmers had to pay 375% more for fertilizer; they reduced their buying so much that the rice harvest fell almost 40% below expectations...