Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There can be absolutely no question, this is as tragic a case as this judge has ever sat upon," Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Robert A. Barton said before the sentence was pronounced...
...only 30,000 jobs in the service sector since 1967. The story is much the same in other cities with large concentrations of Blacks such as Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland, Gary, and Newark. When we consider the toll exacted by the persistence of high unemployment (and underemployment) and the tragic fact that many Blacks, frustrated by failure, have simply stopped looking for work, the "cultural argument that Black family instability and unwed pregnancy are unrelated to external factors seems quite absurd indeed...
...Black middle class expanded greatly Our nation must now go beyond limited policies like affirmative action to institute the requisite economic reforms to assist impoverished Blacks. If the present trend continues, perhaps one half of the Black community will soon be poor. No development could be more tragic for these Blacks; no development could be more tragic for America...
Recent confrontations between Israeli soldiers and civilians with Arabs on the West Bank lead some to denounce Israeli mistreatment of its Arab neighbors. Many of the incidents have indeed been tragic, most notably the killing of an Arab schoolgirl and the maiming of her sister by an Israeli soldier. This and similar incidents, along with the continued expropriation of Arab land for Israeli settlement, only exacerbate the already dangerous tensions in the area. The military administration in the West Bank too has been criticized so in some cases, for the use of arbitrary arrest under the pretext of safely precautions...
...whole rack of Gothic thrillers; it also offered a narrator who pretended to be a deaf-mute, baroque retellings of native legends and a riot of inventiveness. Donoso was inevitably mentioned in the same breath with Borges and Marquez as yet another prophetic surrealist bent on reimagining his colorful, tragic continent...