Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the recession has cost radicals the leisure to protest, it has helped dramatize the plight of the poor and unemployed. It has increased public support for welfare reform, for extension of unemployment benefits, for higher Social Security payments. Thus the recession serves an educational function for the public at large, and it may help many of the reforms envisioned by liberals in the '60s to become enacted in the early...
...muttering something about consistency and inconsistency. With the aid of a bit of rough-riding by Dr. Margaret Mead, chairwoman of the session, over some vocal comments from the audience, Dr. Teller resumed speaking. He said he was worried by the cut of government funds to science and the plight of the universities. "I want to understand the reasons and respond," he said, with the silent S.E.S.P.A. placards still in place...
Intensive Care. It all began, according to Harris, "more as a joke than anything else." After pondering the plight of hangover victims, Harris last year took over an abandoned medical laboratory next to his clinic. He installed a whirlpool bath and a steam cabinet and set up treatment rooms with such names as Heavenly Gates No. 1, Heavenly Gates No. 2, and Intensive Care. Then he hired a host of angels, or hostesses, and passed out cards. Hangover Heaven has been overcrowded ever since...
...engines for the Concorde supersonic jet, nearly every plane in the Royal Air Force, and rocket and diesel motors for road, rail and water transport in more than 100 countries. Last week those two storied giants threatened to push each other into a spectacular transatlantic financial collapse. Their plight was the result of inflation, management errors, soaring ambitions that were frustrated and the difficulties of taming a technology that is growing increasingly complex and costly...
What makes Joe Didman's plight so relevant is that he finally recognizes his own historical irrelevance. Didman's liberal conscience originally made him an outcast among fellow Yale graduates who, in the Silent '50s, sought the maximum security of suburbia while Didman chose a deteriorating New York City, hoping to forward his progressive ideas through publishing. Instead, he finds himself powerless to prevent Government agencies from using his publishing house as a propaganda mill...