Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, racial advancement requires a Federal Government committed to full integration. We have certainly learned in the past five years the consequences of having a President who is actively hostile toward the plight of blacks. When the nation's top leadership encourages non-compliance with court orders, it is no wonder that the resistance of ordinary citizens stiffens...
...John-Stennis-Debating-The-Civil-Rights-Bill type of seminar, where each student seems intent on leading a filibuster. In one course I took in the Department of G******* a student seemed fixated on the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. Whether the day's discussion focused on the plight of agricultural laborers in Brazil, the trade union movement in Argentina, or the economic infrastructure of Venezuela, this loquacious student would ask how it compared with Zapata's noble effort in the Mexican mountains, and then proceed with an interminable, well-documented response. I took to letting out extended sighs during...
Saffran says that NAM puts more emphasis on the plight of "oppressed peoples," and he cites the relationship between the Harvard Corporation and the Harvard Faculty as a possible point of contention between his group...
Once George Seferis wrote that it is the plight of an artist who grew on a harsh and secluded bit of earth to throw bottles into the sea, without complaint for a greater reward. Whether the mediterranean land that claimed him is any less remote to us now, the life this poet spent on it doesn't need to be. This bottle is worth finding...
...Aeronautics Board for federal subsidies of around $265 million for 1974 alone. In August, a desperate Pan Am declared it needed an immediate $10.1 million-a-month subsidy just to keep going, and insisted that it be retroactive to April. The Department of Transportation, worried and bewildered by the plight of the nation's largest overseas carrier, began pressing earlier this month for merger between Pan Am and TWA, a marriage that neither line really wants...