Word: hardships
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There are certain unbreakable laws to the survival story. Take an unlikely character, pluck him out of the anesthetized womb of daily life and toss him into a harsh environment. Test his physical endurance through hardship and privation, his will to live through isolation. And if at all possible, throw in a full-grown royal Bengal tiger...
...front of the television. A little while later," says Springsteen, "I drove across the local bridge. The Trade Center sits right in the middle of it when you look toward New York." Having been spared any personal tragedy, Springsteen tells his where-were-you-when story sheepishly. His greatest hardship was having to explain the day to his kids. "I think it's become placed in their lives in the same way that the nuclear bomb was when I was a kid. It's the really dark, scary thing, and they're not sure where it can touch them...
...extras, part of the background crowd in a musical number, or among the faceless masses in a street scene. Extras, if they find work, will make seven dollars a day. (The highest paid Bollywood stars make a million dollars a picture.) They are willing to put up with incredible hardship?sleeping on pavements, hunger, illness?rather than return in defeat to their villages. Eventually, they pay hefty membership fees to join the Junior Artists Association. "Ambition can be like that," shrugs 42-year-old Suraj, an extra who fondly recalls his best role: as a dying soldier...
...Formula One cars screeching around a circuit for a couple of hours and they'll happily hand over their hard-earned cash. Offer them the chance to watch 90 rally cars storming sideways along a dirt track in 40?C heat and they'll trek up mountains for hours. Hardship comes with the territory. But will they sit in the comfort of their living rooms glued to their computer screens? That is what the World Rally Championship (WRC) is hoping for. Rallying is an enormously popular sport. In 14 countries across four continents around 10 million fans...
...said that very different leadership skills are necessary in times of prosperity and in times of hardship. He cautioned graduates not to indulge themselves and their subordinates with limousines, high salaries and numerous assistants in successful times so that cutbacks in a recession would not need to be as damaging to the corporate community...