Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Presidium member Polyansky, on the other hand, is only 47 years old. His first memories are not of the revolution, but a peasant family's view of the early Stalin years. He has not experienced the elation of participating in the revolution; he has only seen the hardship and slaughter that followed it. The policies he would pursue if he gained power would certainly, within the limits of rational interest, be different...
...weeks ago, they boarded buses, rode four hours to Puerto Viejo -the end of the road. There they packed their gear into dugout canoes equipped with outboards, put-putted for another nine hours down the Sarapiqui River and the San Juan. The fishing more than made up for the hardship. One of the world's ten top gamefish, the tarpon is a jumping fool that often runs well over 100 Ibs., can snap a line almost at will or make a reel smoke with his furious runs. Experienced fishermen count themselves lucky to boat one out of every...
...today's hearing, Dietz will argue that the Board should not waive an ordinance requiring off-street leading facilities for buildings to which goods are delivered. Exceptions to the City's zoning code are allowed "only for reasons of practical difficulty and demonstrable and substantial hardship." Such hardship does not exist in this case, he claims...
...Biculturalism to recommend ways to develop "the basis of equal partnership." But feelings run deep, and, partly spurred by the rise of Charles de Gaulle's France to new prominence, more and more French Canadians are openly talking about a separate Quebec. Yet the fear of economic hardship, among other things, discourages many Quebeckers from taking separatism seriously-it would be a "disaster," says Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage. On its own, however, Quebec is seeking capital from the U.S. and trade ties with France, in 1961 opened a $340,000 Maison du Quebec in Paris...
...women and children already there will be withdrawn by normal rotation. By early 1966, Gitmo will be in a class with such bleak outstations as Thule and Antarctica-a "hardship post," with tours of duty reduced from two years...