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...stop taking the drugs the moment they feel better or to save money. This puts the rest of the world at risk by allowing stronger TB strains which weathered the initial stage of treatment to reproduce. The problem in Eastern Europe has in part been fueled by severe economic hardship since the collapse of Soviet communism in 1991. Since that year, Russia has experienced a 70 percent rise in TB cases and a 90 percent increase in TB deaths. While Western Europe currently lies on the front of a bitter outbreak the disease, WHO officials warn that...
...Vietnam War was heating up, but Lott, like other students, enjoyed an exemption until his graduation from law school in 1967. By then he had married Tricia Thompson of Pascagoula and, according to Selective Service records, secured a "hardship" exemption because of the impending birth of their first child Chet. Lott says he was so focused on his studies and student political matters, such as getting soda machines in the dorms, that he didn't think much about either protesting the war or volunteering for it. Vietnam, like civil rights, was another uncomfortable subject to be ducked...
Special permits, unlike variances, do not require the applicant to demonstrate that a hardship is imposed by the zoning ordinances, says Lester W. Barber, the director of land use and zoning in the city's Community Development Department...
Imagine the hardship to be endured by the workers and their families. Imagine the depression, the foreclosures, the strain on marriages. These folks are white collar Americans, like us, and they're about to suffer greatly. Maybe Levi's will break its profit record...
...would be a truly sad situation if, years from now, in the histories of American blacks and Jews, it was recorded that Gavin Cato, Yankel Rosenbaum and the unique coalition between blacks and Jews all died in the last decade of the 20th century. We must endeavor, even through hardship (a reality both our peoples have known), to ensure that such a history is never written. --Jason Purnell...