Word: hardships
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...late. "We have known since the time of Gorbachev that the Russians don't give a damn about the prestige of their leaders," says Gernot Erler, a senior German legislator, "unless it puts food in their stomachs." No Western wands can wave away the real economic hardship that has fueled the Russian Congress's grab for power...
This weekend's road trip figured to be tough on Harvard after its overtime loss to Brown last weekend, which eliminated the Crimson from the Ivy title race. As a further hardship, the Crimson had to first travel seven hours to Columbia before a midnight run through the New York wilderness to Ithaca...
...hate to complain to you about these things. It seems that my letters are nothing but a list of grievances. I do not hate Harvard all of the time. It's just that sometimes I wonder if it is worth all the hardship. Oh, well, it's the price I have to pay for my Harvard degree; I just wish the price wasn't so high for students of color...
...five, died when a fire broke out in the basement of an unlicensed day-care center whose owner had stepped out for a few minutes just before the flames started. The rash of deaths underscores once more the extent to which an increasing number of parents, through economic hardship or simple irresponsibility, are unable or unwilling to get reliable child care. In many cases, including these two, the social service agencies empowered to prevent such disasters do not react until it's too late. In Detroit the police were conducting an investigation into whether the parents should be charged with...
...House staff will be 25% leaner starting the next fiscal year. Use of government airplanes will be nearly on a life-or- death basis, and Cabinet officials are urged to fly coach. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, who is less than 5 ft. tall, admitted it will be no hardship for him, joking, "I don't need the legroom...