Word: hardships
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...China. The general store transplanted from the hills of West Virginia prompted her to ask if it had been a coop. But it was the reconstructed kitchen of an Italian immigrant of the 1920s that elicited her greatest admiration. Although it was supposed to show the poverty and hardship suffered by America's immigrants, Cho Lin, the warm and plump wife of Teng Hsiao-p'ing, saw it quite differently. "They certainly had high living standards," she marveled...
...chart real economic distress. They do not do this well at present, in large part because families in which both spouses work are now the norm rather than the exception; if one loses his or her job, the family can still get along. The commission wants to devise a "hardship index" that would count many employed people who labor at low-wage jobs and exclude the unemployed whose families still have sizable incomes...
...distress is tough to measure: at one point the experts were considering 18 hardship indexes. They are still undecided about what they will recommend when they make their final report next September, but it could contain some surprises, especially for liberals. One proposed index cited in the preliminary study showed that "hardship" actually declined between 1967 and 1976, even though the unemployment rate generally rose...
...What former Creighton University star was selected in the first year of the hardship draft by the Warriors, but never made the team because of a heroin addiction...
...School Fund, said yesterday that only 14 per cent of the Class of '76 and 16 per cent of the Class of '77 have neglected to contribute to the fund. "This is certainly not a class-wide boycott," he said, adding many alumni cannot contribute because of financial hardship...