Word: plights
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...shooting three people in a Paterson, N.J., tavern; by a U.S. district judge, on the ground that the verdict was based on prejudice and prosecutors' errors. The case received national attention in 1976, when the New Jersey Supreme Court threw out the original convictions. Bob Dylan championed Carter's plight in song and, along with Boxer Muhammad Ali, helped raise a $600,000 defense fund. The two men were convicted again in a retrial after which Carter served nine more years in prison...
Most horrifying of all was the plight of those who were trapped, still living, in the mud. Many were buried up to their necks; some had their mouths stopped with filth, so they could not cry for help. Sometimes the buried survivors were still locked in gruesome embrace with the dead. One was Omaira Sanchez, 13, who remained up to her neck in ooze two days following the disaster. When the mudslide struck, Omaira was washed up against her aunt, who grabbed hold of her. The aunt died, but kept her grip, even after rigor mortis had set in. Finally...
...believe that universities should be more responsive to their legitimate grievances and co-opt some of their suggestions—including a set pay scale that is merit-based and no compulsory teaching for financial aid—to preempt calls for unionization. This solution will improve the plight of graduate students, which will improve sections independently, and allow universities to create a system that best serves the needs of undergraduate education...
Both management and union leaders representing the company's 10,000 employees blamed each other for the company's plight. The union had made fresh contract concessions, but retracted them because it was unhappy with a debt-reorganization plan worked out by the company and its bankers...
Last week, as the news of Rock Hudson's illness spread, AIDS researchers and patients alike were hopeful that his plight, and his decision to reveal it, might finally dramatize the threat of the growing epidemic and bring calls for a more effective medical counterattack. Says Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien, who has treated hundreds of AIDS patients at New York University Medical Center: "It takes something like this to make the public aware that not enough is being done." --By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles, with other bureaus