Word: hardship
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There's no question that despite the occasional hardship, Washington has real allure. It's not uncommon to hear interns talking about "witnessing democracy in action...
...mothers to handing him over to her police-officer husband at the station-house door when they worked alternating shifts. With their schedules in constant flux, there were snags every step of the way. Curtin was more fortunate than most workers: police- department policy allows a year of unpaid "hardship" leave for child care. She decided to invoke that provision...
...part of a series of celebrated crime novels being reprinted for the first time by a small publishing house in California. This book might not be a classic, but most of the others in the series certainly are. The writers of the thirties captured the mood of hostility and hardship prevalent in that decade in ways that have been only weakly copied since then...
...volunteers who have served for at least two years in the Marines with an unblemished record. The flunk-out rate at Marshall Hall is 27%, including those who don't survive a final joint Marine-State Department screening board. Oddly enough, freshly minted Marine guards are generally sent to hardship posts like Moscow. The theory is that congenial embassies like Paris should be reserved for Marines who have completed an initial 15-month tour of duty. The problem is that Marines who face the most serious security threats tend to be the least experienced...
...sanctions come during a time of relative economic hardship for Japan and political difficulties for its Prime Minister, Yasuhiro Nakasone. Under heavy pressure from the U.S., Japan has allowed its yen to appreciate 43% against the dollar during the past two years, which has pinched the country's economic growth and pushed unemployment to 3% for the first time in decades. The new sanctions would go into effect only two weeks before a planned visit to Washington by Nakasone, who was hoping for a show of friendliness with Reagan that might boost his support at home...