Word: unmet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jobs in the legal world to find and to get, even coming out of the top schools. By not providing the encouragement, guidance and direction of someone like Ron Fox, Harvard Law School will miss the chance to serve many of its students who want to contribute to the unmet needs of society. The law school fulfilled an important social obligation of its own by helping its students serve the public...
...Pressing student needs for public interest counseling remain unmet," said the letter, "and...the decision [to eliminate the counselors] reflects a disturbing underlying philosophy...
Abroad and at home, challenges are going unmet. Under the shadow of a massive federal deficit that neither political party is willing to confront, a kind of neurosis of accepted limits has taken hold from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other. Whatever the situation -- the unprecedented opportunity to promote democracy in Eastern Europe, the spreading plague of drugs, the plight of the underclass, the urgent need for educational reform -- the typical response from Washington consists of encouraging words and token funds. Yet voters, especially the better-organized ones, continue to demand -- and often receive -- more benefits and services...
NATION: Facing unmet needs, millions of Americans are lending a helping hand...
...most popular form of population control in developing countries is sterilization. Some 98 million women and 35 million men around the world have resorted to that permanent solution. The other current mainstay is abortion, which the Worldwatch Institute's Brown called "a reflection of unmet family- planning needs." An estimated 28 million abortions are performed in Third World nations annually, and an additional 26 million in industrial countries. About half are illegal...