Word: hardship
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...totalitarian rule choose a course that could quickly lead to their renewed oppression? Part of the answer can be found in the abuse Yeltsin received in Yaroslavl. "A lot of Russians have come to identify various aspects of what we call reform not with a better future but with hardship," explains U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (and former TIME editor at large) Strobe Talbott, who oversees the Clinton Administration's Russia policy. "Crime and corruption are both broad based and deeply rooted," Talbott says. "They pose huge obstacles to Russia staying on a reformist course. [So] Russians tend to identify...
...with a lot of pain and hardship since no one in the village spoke English," Mildbrandt-Wyatt said. "But by the time he was ready to leave, everyone recognized him as a Czech...
...been a goal since the President entered office. But in wooing moderate Republicans, Clinton risks alienating a core of black constituents that oppose interracial adoptions. Opponents, such as the National Association of Black Social Workers, say a child may never learn about their cultural heritage or may suffer emotional hardship if raised by parents of another race, says TIME's Sharon Epperson. "Opponents say white parents need to recognize that this is a child of color who will face all the racism they never faced." Epperson notes that opponents believe that if white parents do not teach adopted children...
...been a goal since the President entered office. But in wooing moderate Republicans, Clinton risks alienating a core of black constituents that oppose interracial adoptions. Opponents, such as the National Association of Black Social Workers, say a child may never learn about their cultural heritage or may suffer emotional hardship if raised by parents of another race, says TIME's Sharon Epperson. "Opponents say white parents need to recognize that this is a child of color who will face all the racism they never faced." Epperson notes that opponents believe that if white parents do not teach adopted children...
...AIDS were reported, that it would become such a grave and global problem. The E.U. feels sympathetic to Britain and wants to lessen its economic loss by possibly killing fewer cows than is necessary to eradicate the disease. It shows a good spirit to want to spare economic hardship, but this must not override the real concern about a potential large-scale spread of the disease in humans. Once the genie is out of bottle, it is hard to put it back in. The potentially contaminated beef may reach Third World countries. There is no shortage of corrupt politicians...