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...Saudi Arabia (pop. 9.7 million), the largest and most energy rich of the Arab gulf nations, officials have allocated $75.4 billion for the current fiscal year, down 17% from the previous period. But the region's wealth remains so great that such cutbacks have not yet caused much hardship. "The gold rush is over," says one U.S. diplomat stationed in the area. "But that doesn't mean that there's no gold out here. It just means that you can't pick up the nuggets on the street any more...
Shapiro said he would accept the professors resignation to avoid "further hardship and pain to the family of the faculty member involved." He said he did not think accepting the resignation would decrease the impact of the University's decision. The Michigan Daily
...downs, he finds his greatest solace in having his own family. Affairs of business (the board of directors wants a new chairman) drive him away again, and in that journey his family is torn asunder, eclipsed, distanced from each other, only to come together years later after great hardship and anguish. The story provides a paradigm of family traumas: striking out alone, marriage, divorce, filial differences or just plain lack of time for each other. But ultimately, Pericles celebrates the nuclear family which endures and reunites against all odds and society's evils. All will live happily until the cycle...
...church was negotiating with the government to funnel about $2 billion into providing farms with machinery, seeds, fertilizer and other needed goods. Most of the farmers in Borkowo are either unaware or skeptical of the offer. The only thing they are sure of is that the best response to hardship is hard work. "On the farm," says Golunski, "we work only 360 days a year. The rest goes to vacation." -By Pico Iyer. Reported by John Moody/Warsaw
...infancy are hard to gauge scientifically, but Dr. Gerald Young of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center says flatly, "If you want to guess what a child will be like at age seven, look first to the socioeconomic background." This is not simply a matter of economic hardship or nutritional deficiency. Says Brown's Lipsitt: "The socioeconomic index is as powerful a predictor of later intellectual prowess as any variable we've got, but it doesn't operate in a vacuum. It is a representation of the way people live and relate toward each other...