Word: plights
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...Faust’s bibliography, which lists a book on the plight of Confederate intellectuals next to a biography of a plantation owner who molested his teenage nieces, reveals a career spent jumping from topic to topic...
...Annie E. Casey Foundation and Child Trends that examined factors like health and education, low-income children are better off in poor, rural areas (the Midwest, for example) than in wealthier and more urban locales (the Northeast). "It is surprising," says report co-author William O'Hare about the plight of poor kids in rich states. "There is a crucial sense of community lacking in the metropolitan areas...
...Serbia's orphanages and medical institutions, an international human rights group revealed on Wednesday. A study by the U.S.-based Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) found that Serbia's treatment of its disabled citizens includes segregation, inhumane practices, and life-long detention in deplorable conditions. The group deemed the plight of Serbia's institutionalized disabled as torture, rather than treatment...
...study comes at a time when both the treatment of veterans and the plight of uninsured Americans are at the center of national political debates...
...subsidiary that had maintained close ties to the Nazi regime. (UBS said that the shredding was a “deplorable mistake” and apologized.) Given that UBS has already expressed contrition for its Holocaust history, it is especially outrageous that the bank would again ignore the plight of genocide victims...