Word: hardship
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Willing to Gamble. Theoretically, the limit should work no great hardship on the Administration. The figure is exactly what Nixon requested in his formal budget presentation. The catch is that spending during a fiscal year is almost always substantially above the estimate made earlier. If the House bill becomes law, any unexpected but necessary increase would force a curtailment elsewhere in a budget that is already relatively lean in domestic areas. Thus the restriction could severely limit the Administration's ability to deal with emergencies and handle such "uncontrollable spending" as interest on the national debt and Social Security...
Self-Sacrifice. Taking up more substantial issues, the conference sanctioned birth control in special hardship cases, but refused otherwise to raise the lowly status of women in the Islamic world. Moslem husbands may still divest themselves of an unwanted wife by simply repeating "I divorce thee" three times. The conference also took a surprisingly moderate stand on the Middle East. It refused to consider the demand of the El Fatah guerrillas for a jihad (holy war) against Israel - and pointedly explained that the word jihad also meant sacrificing one's self for the good of mankind...
...relocated according to plans announced by Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, on April 12. Ebert's statement said that families will be relocated in several phases into housing "as suitable as possible to their choice and means, and with a minimum of inconvenience and hardship...
...some of whom have been playing Blues for over 25 years, have benefited from this Blues revival. They have made the long trip from one night stands in the roadhouses of the South to weekend gigs at white rock palaces like the Fillmost East. After many years of hardship these men can now pay their debts and take a couple of nights a week...
Hoffman's long ascent is, in its anti-way, heroic. But hardly atypical. For an actor, it is impossible to become a leading man until he has a face: that is his hardship. For an actress, it is possible to become a leading lady as soon as she has a body: that is her handicap. Mia Farrow's measurements are closely akin to a newel post's. "I look like an elephants' graveyard," she admits. Nevertheless, it is a body. The face is something else; the exquisite bone structure and the fine, flawless skin suggest an antique doll...