Word: succor
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...unemployment. The great Italian trade names -- Olivetti, Pirelli, Fiat -- are struggling. For most citizens the implications of this recession are only beginning to sink in, but labor leaders say the crisi will soon hit the whole white-collar sector. Yet the country's planners look abroad for succor. "Everything depends on what happens in the U.S.," says Tancredi Bianchi, president of the Italian Banking Association. Confindustria, the employers' federation, is also hoping that "the symptoms of recovery are confirmed...
...stripe or another when it comes to debating the legal system. Lawyers are advocates, and for some, no cause is more likely to arouse passion than the defense of a profession that, after exacting a grueling apprenticeship, provides their livelihood. The political system is apt to provide only limited succor; nearly half the members of Congress are lawyers. That is certainly one reason why nonlawyers feel compelled to resort to the weapon available to oppressed people everywhere -- sarcastic humor. (Q. Why does New Jersey have so much industrial waste and Washington, D.C., so many lawyers? A. New Jersey had first...
...perhaps military quagmire. Prodded by distressed allies, by outraged U.S. and European public opinion, and not least by his own conscience, George Bush last week finally did what he should have done long before: set in motion an unprecedented and bold operation that might at last bring effective succor to the Kurds -- at least to the 850,000 or so squatting along the Iraq-Turkey border and possibly to the 1.5 million who are seeking asylum in Iran...
...massacre their supporters by the thousands. That is already happening in the south, where Saddam loyalists reportedly have regained control of nearly all the towns once captured by the Shi'ites and are taking a fearsome revenge. Refugees by the thousands have fled across the American lines, seeking succor and narrating tales of torture and mass executions...
...bringing succor to the poor and dying of Calcutta and Kalighat, Mother Teresa finds richness in utter poverty and hope in the darkest corners of despair...