Word: hardships
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...environmentalists did not win every battle. By pleading financial hardship, steelmakers got until the year 2020 to eliminate cancer-causing emissions from their coke ovens, as long as they take interim steps to reduce that pollution. Electric utilities in the Great Lakes region -- many of them affected by the new acid-rain rules -- fought off a proposal to require them to reduce their release of mercury and other toxic chemicals from coal-burning plants...
...finding the luster of their golden years dulled by responsibilities they never anticipated. Yes, they love their grandkids. And yes, they stand ready to serve as the family National Guard when a crisis arises. But a host of social ills -- from drug abuse and divorce to financial hardship and teenage pregnancy -- have turned many graying citizens into full- or part-time custodians of their grandchildren precisely when they were preparing to ease into retirement and a new independence. Unexpectedly robbed of the "grand" part of grandparenting, many feel angry and resentful. They are also bewildered by their children's choices...
...Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The first U.S. exhibition for the Brazilian-born Salgado, a onetime economist who took up photography to document life in developing nations. Whether in a Peruvian village, an open-pit gold mine in Brazil or a refugee camp in Ethiopia, Salgado sees not just hardship, though he sees a great deal of that, but also the immemorial underpinnings of life -- tradition, community and work -- that give suffering a meaning. Through...
...John P. Fadden Award, established in his honor in 1966, is presented annually to the senior who has made a significant contribution to his or her team despite a physical hardship...
Bush also defended his failure to disclose his financial dependence on Good when the Silverado board forgave $11 million worth of loans to the developer, who pleaded hardship. Bush said he saw no reason to mention that Good planned to invest $3 million in JNB after the vote, since the investment was only tentative...