Word: hardships
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...Iraqi imports, except for a list of specified items to prevent Baghdad refurbishing its military or developing weapons of mass destruction. The current formula forces Baghdad to apply to a U.N. committee on a case-by-case basis for all of its imports, a bureaucratic process that causes hardship for ordinary Iraqis and has allowed Saddam Hussein to portray U.N. sanctions as the cause of tremendous human suffering in his country...
...budget priorities, and in bargaining collectively, Harvard should give due weight to the basic needs and interests of its workers: their lives are greatly affected by its decisions, and morality requires that all agents consider the effects of their actions on others and avoid unnecessarily causing harm or hardship to anyone...
...Harvard causing harm or hardship, or exploiting some of its workers? Arguably it is, even though it does not force anyone to take its jobs; for if the wages are not enough to support a decent standard of living, the worker is faced with the choice of either trying to find a better-paying job elsewhere in the area, which will not be possible if Harvard is indeed paying no less than other employers, or working a second or third job if they are able. For many it is a choice between the hardships of poverty and those of overworking...
...vote means the state will remain the only one to continue flying a flag that contains symbols of the Confederacy. But unlike in South Carolina, which eventually stopped flying the flag over the statehouse amid threats of economic sanction, Mississippi isn't expected to suffer much more financial hardship over the decision than it already does as the Union's poorest state. Still, supporters were disappointed...
...much will lower taxes mean to unemployed or retired people who are counting on their stock dividends?" And a Floridian pulled out all the stops: "George W. Bush has mastered the art of frightening the nation and created an atmosphere of worry and hardship so as to promote his own self-interests and those of his friends." Whew...