Word: hardships
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Introduced at the end of a decade of economic hardship, TV was touted early on as a creator of jobs as much as a purveyor of entertainment. The centerpiece of the Smithsonian's exhibit is a display of old TV sets -- clunky wooden boxes with tiny, anemic-looking screens. But perhaps more significant is a selection of print advertisements that tried to sell Americans on this strange new gizmo...
...have someone in our background who picked crops," said Raza member and fast participant Rudy Ruiz '89."That's what Mexican-Americans did in thiscountry. We understand the hardship of peoplesuffering...
Noble said that the removal permit ordinance imposes three criteria in judging applications to take apartments off of rent control of move them: the "aggravation" removal would cause to the rental housing stocks, the hardship to the tenants, and the benefit to the tenants...
...relates. "The experience convinced me that for all the work of sociologists, psychiatrists and researchers, children are best able to articulate what makes them the way they are. But we know little about how such issues as working mothers, single-parent homes, drug abuse, sex and economic hardship affect youngsters...
...West Virginia hills cradle families in cozy, isolated hollows. Mining is dangerous, and children worry when their fathers go into the mines. But a different kind of hardship comes when the mines close down; often families split up when breadwinners depart to look for jobs. Children remain behind, wondering if they too will one day have to leave the security of land and family...