Word: hardships
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...Highest Unit Re-enlistment Rate - Any outfit that has been in Iraq recently. All the danger, all the hardship, all the time away from home, all the horror, all the frustrations with the fight here - all are outweighed by the desire for young men to be part of a band of brothers who will die for one another. They found what they were looking for when they enlisted out of high school. Man for man, they now have more combat experience than any Marines in the history of our Corps...
...certain of what function this shiny new facility is supposed to serve. Perhaps it is to draw attention to the oppression that the female portion of Harvard’s student body must face every day. But then again, we’re hard-pressed to think of any hardship facing women on this campus that this Women’s Center can possibly solve. Or maybe, as 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich seemed to suggest at the center’s grand opening, it is a sort of reparation that Harvard has paid to compensate...
Laughter punctuates Alexis Wright's conversation like the call of a bittersweet bird. It's born of hardship and ambition, and the daily arguments she had with herself over the four years it took to write her second and latest novel, Carpentaria. What she was searching for was an authentic literary voice that could traverse a continent and tell its inside stories to the outside world. It's a struggle that has already found her an audience in France, where pioneering publishing house Actes Sud translated her first novel, Plains of Promise, and a collection of her short stories...
...There may eventually be a few individuals at the margins who still choose to use Microsoft, but the majority should be free of this hardship." M.A. BABY, education minister of the Indian state of Kerala, which plans to replace Microsoft programs with open-source software in 12,500 state high schools...
...least one thatched hut ignites every day. So many are burning, in fact, that most residents remove their belongings when they leave each morning for school or to cultivate crops. Their homes may be gone by the time they return and, as they have no other explanation for their hardship, they have turned to religion for answers. They believe the fires to be the work of evil spirits. In northern Uganda, well over 1 million of the Acholi people live in camps like the one at Anaka. But a truce last week between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord...