Word: hardships
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...Signs of hardship abound throughout rural America. In Unionville, Mo., Bud and Hazel Hirst have decided to give away their 476-acre cattle ranch, which is $200,000 in debt. "You can't sell land here," says Bud, 53. "Nobody is going to buy it." The Hirsts have hit on a unique way to lay their burden down. They have collected poems by Hazel, 52, in a booklet titled Bitter Harvest, and are selling copies for $8 each (sample verse: "But hope won't clothe your children/ It can't their hunger salve/ It will not pay the mortgage...
Like the proverbial mule, the contras fighting the Sandinista government of Nicaragua just keep plodding along. Six months after the U.S. Congress voted to cut off their covert Central Intelligence Agency funding, the rebels have come to depend increasingly on supplies and money from private U.S. sources. Economic hardship has forced the guerrilla factions to halt their frequent bickering, but a united front remains elusive. The war itself has quieted down, with the insurgents avoiding battles with Nicaraguan troops in favor of ambushes and hit-and-run strikes. The overall reality, however, has not changed: the contras right...
...Defense's nuclear agency, cautioned that uncertainties remain in many of the calculations. Even so, said George E Carrier, an applied mathematician at Harvard University who was chairman of the 18-member committee, the N.A.S. findings were "consistent" with the original studies, which predicted global cooling and severe hardship for any survivors. The panel recommended that high priority be given to serious research to try to answer some of the more elusive questions that the nuclear-winter theory has raised...
...entire U.S. public. "We are holding out the promise that the whole population will benefit from this, and that is unrealistic," says Dr. Edward Ahrens, a leading cholesterol researcher at Rockefeller University. But Steinberg argues that the diet can do no harm and hardly poses a hardship: "There is no reason a person can't follow it and still have a sundae at Haagen-Dazs every Saturday...
This fall at Eliot House, however, nuisance turned to hardship when students increased not to attach wall decorations with tape, found that their renovated rooms lacked the mouldings along the ceilings from which students traditionally hang posters and paintings...