Word: hardship
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...opportunity to do valid public service four years ago," he says, "I never would have left the country." On the other hand, John Barry, 22, a draft-dodging San Francisco musician, hired a lawyer and gave himself up to the same U.S. Attorney's office. Considered a hardship case because he supports his widowed mother, he was told that he would probably have to work for only six months...
...aspiring novelist who lives with his wife and two children in Montreal. Denied conscientious-objector status, he fled in 1968. "O.K., I accept the sentiment behind the proposal," he says, "but it's a kind of humiliation, a concept that we were subversive. It's a hardship for our families. Some of them would have to go on welfare for two years while husbands served out their debts. I've had a very good life here, but there's no point in denying it -there'll always be a lot of me that...
When Roosevelt promised to give up Lucy, Eleanor agreed to keep living with him but never again to share his bed. This was no hardship for Eleanor, Bishop reports. She once told her daughter Anna, "Sex, my dear, is a thing a woman must learn to endure...
...expects the widely publicized program to have anything but a cosmetic effect on France's severe economic difficulties. A more fundamental attack on inflation was launched several months ago when President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing restricted credit by imposing high interest rates. Recognizing the hardship the measure inflicted on most Frenchmen, Giscard has urged his countrymen: "Do not give in to discouragement." Nonetheless, forecasts indicate that this winter widespread strikes and business failures could sweep France...
...domestic problems can be solved." The chief strategy will be to slash federal spending and let the Federal Reserve keep a relatively tight lid on money and credit growth, at the risk of turning the threat of recession into an actuality. But there will be special help to ease hardship, in the form of programs to aid housing, the cash-strapped utilities industry and, most important, the people thrown out of work. The programs have yet to be formulated; one idea is a Government subsidy to lenders to hold down mortgage interest rates...