Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strikers and management had worked out most of the fine print for a new contract by week's end, policyholders were still mailing in their premiums, and the agents, who have no strike fund, were still living off past commissions. In many cases, this was no particular hardship, since a hard working and fortunate agent can make $100,000 a year...
...always a job shortage in Nablus. But previously a man would travel to Amman, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia to find employment, often sending money to his family which remained on the West Bank. Now the frontiers are closed. Naturally the Arabs hold the Jews responsible for this economic hardship...
...very great American once stated that America would pay any price, bear any burden and meet any hardship in the defense of liberty. Does this quotation pertain to the war in Viet Nam? Or was the meaning of it buried with John F. Kennedy...
Hanoi undoubtedly sees the dispersal and hardship of war as a lesson for its urban elite as well. The DLD echoed Mao's concern with getting intellectuals to develop a feel for the peasantry when it packed students off to the hinterland for several months of manual labor of 1958. Now students scattered in jungle and mountain retreats are hacking out their own classrooms, sleeping in straw huts, and walking dirt paths to classes...
AIRLINES Leaving Their Dollars President Johnson's proposed travel tax would hurt all airlines that fly be tween the U.S. and Europe. But it figures to work a special hardship on foreign carriers, since they currently handle 60% of all transatlantic traffic...