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...Member of Parliament from Ahuntsic, Quebec, said last week the Parti Quebecois may have a deleterious impact on Quebec's economy. "The uncertainty that exists in the province of Quebec is very damaging economically. The kind of irresponsibility [the Parti Quebecois] has introduced in Quebec... will probably mean economic hardship for a lot of people in Quebec," she said. "We have no statistics on the indecision about investments, but all we hear is bad news... Certainly if the businesses have not decided not to invest in Quebec, they have decided to postpone [their investment] for the time being." Sauve added...
There are references throughout the article to the pain and hardship suffered by those who overindulge in credit spending, but nothing that relates to the exploitation inflicted on the rest of us who keep our cravings within normal bounds, but who are nevertheless subsidizing those free-spirited ones by paying higher prices...
...dinner. This dinner, as one might expect, continues as one of the strongest surviving traditions. The menu includes a variety of foods with symbolic import (e.g., noodles are eaten for long life). Although the list of such foods is lengthy, fulfilling the requirements is generally not considered a hardship...
Still, it is the brutal and unrelenting cold-the Big Freeze -that has transformed the inevitable grousing about the weather into personal agony and national hardship. The furies of January have been unrelenting. Alltime low temperatures were recorded last week in Cincinnati (-25), Miami Beach ( + 32), Palm Beach ( + 27). Single-day records for the date were set in New York City (-1); Dayton (-21); and Lynchburg, Va. ( - 8). At -19, Chicago experienced its coldest day in this century. Peoria, Ill. ( - 25), had not been so cold since 1884. In Rice Lake, Wis., the temperature plunged...
...confounded her opponents. Morarji Desai, 80, the wily leader of the Old Congress Party and an implacable political foe of Mrs. Gandhi's, suddenly found himself released from jail only a few hours before Mrs. Gandhi's broadcast. The relatively short campaign period, he complained, "puts a hardship on the opposition. But I am sure that the sudden declaration of an election will benefit not the Prime Minister but the nation." Declared Piloo Mody, secretary of the Indian People's Party: "I am happy about the long overdue election. I hope the government will lift the emergency...