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Muskie neither threatened nor cajoled, but he stressed in his private sessions with the ministers that the Carter Administration regarded sanctions as "important" because they would inflict hardship and a sense of isolation on the Tehran regime. To reporters, he added that "pain is a highly motivating force" and "sanctions [are] a specific way of communicating to Iran...
...ordinance, passed by the City Council August 13, 1979, requires the city's rent control board to hear applications for removal permits. The statute instructs the board to consider the city's "housing emergency" and the hardship of conversion to individual tenants in its decision...
Whatever the term, many jobless workers will feel little immediate financial hardship. Generally, anyone who has been employed between 14 and 20 weeks during four of the last five quarters can draw unemployment compensation that averages about 50% of gross weekly wages. Large unions now have also obtained from employers regular layoff benefits for their members. In addition, workers such as those in the steel, auto and shoemaking industries can count on receiving substantial supplemental payments under a 1962 federal program that grants special aid to employees whose companies suffer from foreign competition. In fact, some steelworkers can be laid...
...coup de grace, McLean filed a notice with the state Division of Employment Security, preventing Malin from collecting unemployment insurance. In such a situation, governmental action to secure immediate reinstatement is, by its nature, the most effective remedy to protect violation. Without such action, the victimized worker faces financial hardship in pursuing the case. Furthermore, the co-workers in these circumstances are naturally reluctant to speak out about their working conditions for fear they will lose their jobs. But according to Howard M. Kowal '35, who prosecuted many labor cases as Boston's former New England Regional Attorney...
...have lights, the Rural Electrification Administration has kept alive by moving into telephone and even cable TV loans. The Farmers Home Administration, which was set up to help farmers buy land, has guaranteed credit to a ski resort, a distressed steel company and at least two Ramada Inns. Financial hardship is not always a criterion. In 1978 Congress opened the student loan program, which charges only 7% interest, to everyone, regardless of the size of their parents' bank balances...