Word: hardships
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...didn't fine her because it would have been a hardship. Instead you put her in jail. Wasn't that pretty harsh...
...systematically dynamited and bulldozed are inhabited again. Tents and lean-tos dot the snowy slopes, shattered walls support makeshift plastic roofs, and open-air bazaars are conducting a brisk business in food, fuel and clothing. Many of the villages' new residents are doing their best to rebuild amid desperate hardship and the harshest winter in 40 years...
Still, there is no question that the slump in production and the rise in prices and joblessness are breeding dangerous discontent. In Czechoslovakia "almost half the population is dissatisfied and nonsupportive of economic reform," says Marek Boguszak, president of a Prague opinion-research firm. "The hardship is almost at the crucial point where it could turn to aggressive opposition to reform...
...past decade, Cambridge has been called a haven for immigrants fleeing political persecution or economic hardship in their home countries...
...seeds they should be planting. Twenty miles from the capital, immunization programs have been curtailed, a casualty of government efforts to conserve fuel that make refrigeration of vaccines impossible. As a result, children are dying of measles. Yet in the slums, people do not complain of physical hardship; they speak instead of spiritual malnourishment. "Titid gave us dignity and hope," says a barefoot man, referring to Aristide by his popular nickname. "Keep the embargo. We are ready to suffer if it means Titid will come back." A moment later, he implores, "He will come back...