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...problem of vacancies that presently exist, fails to establish a firm policy to be applied, if future vacancies should arise. Will sophomores be allowed to fill those vacancies as soon as they occur, or will the transfer freeze still apply? CHUL will clearly be imposing an undue hardship on students if they have to wait for the monthly CHUL meetings for approval of their desired transfer on a case by case basis. However, such a situation can only be avoided if CHUL finally does what it should have done last spring, lift the transfer freeze...
...life, Schwartz says Mao's presence was influential. "I don't think he was ever a leader interested in the details or mechanics of government. Yet all he had to do was say something and it would come down with a crash, he says. Schwartz foresees some hardship in establishing the Chinese Communist Party as an institutional entity, a central focus, with the find of legitimacy that its chairman had. And although he sees factions in the leadership compromising now, because of anxiety over splintering within the government, Schwartz feels the party still must assert itself as an independent entity...
...slums disfigure their cities, their air and water are largely pollution-free, and they have ever more leisure to indulge a collective passion for being ut i naturen (out in nature) in their half-forested country. Neither ill-health, unemployment nor old age pose the terror of financial hardship. In short, Sweden's 8.2 million citizens have ample reasons for being satisfied. In fact, most...
...ships' parade. Wood remembered Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s line in Two Years Before the Mast: "There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship." He also learned, as Dana did, that "it is all work and hardship after all." Wood described a typical scene aboard the training bark...
...chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, even mused that a lot of experts overlooked the important role of the automobile. The incredible mobility of the American worker destroyed the conventional theories. Added a White House economic strategist, "Unemployment statistics can no longer be used as an index of hardship." For this season anyway, that may be the epitaph of the old jobs issue as politicians have known and loved...