Word: hardships
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...ashamed of my fellow retirees who assume that retirement from remunerative labor also means retiring from the obligations of citizenship. Social Security benefits should be taxed as income, particularly the portion that is paid by employers. The graduated income tax, with double exemptions, protects those who are poor from hardship or impoverishment...
...that nurtured them. In a sense it was selfish--Ivy League ruminations about political alienation, glorified as an answer for the poor man and the Black. The students were grandiloquent on paper and naive in the ghetto; certainly personal guilt over their own relative security in the face of hardship elsewhere helped inspire some student leaders. As both fans and critics of the New Left have noted the Jewish tradition of leadership in American and European radical movements, in addition to the Jews' unusual concern for other groups separated from the mainstream, must be prominent elements of any thorough portrait...
Although board members are cheerful about these difficult periods, Murphy also believes that something can be done to put the magazine back on its feet. She dates the current financial hardship to the middle '60s when an issue ran with an inordinately expensive glossy cover. So, for the first time in many years, the Advocate will not have a photographic cover this November...
...tight race with Democrat Bob Kerrey, the President preached his faith in economic recovery with a religious fervor. "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning," he said, borrowing from Psalm 30. "America has endured a long terrible night of economic hardship, but we are seeing the first welcome bursts of sunshine...
...individual voices deal the strongest emotional punch--particularly Bernstein, who varies her tone and character effortlessly from scrappy, Horatio-Alger-like preteen newsboy to gentle, pained, unfulfilled wife and mother, and Barry Mann, who as a migrant worker urging a grapes boycott evokes a universe of hardship and anger in Spanish melody...