Word: hardships
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...strike was named "Alice Doesn't" after the book and movie "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" dealing with a widow's attempt to persevere amidst economic hardship...
Russell is firmly opposed to the present rent control board and blames it for restricting new growth. He added, however, that some kind of review board is necessary to keep rents from being raised "to the point of hardship." Russell said he believes the universities "make Cambridge what it is," but he feels they should pay more taxes and be limited in their land acquisitions, particularly along the Charles...
There's a certain amount of desperation in Welfare and there's a certain amount of hype, but it's hard to tell what's what, who's a hardship case and who's cheating the system. The camera is locked into the same claustrophobic office, there aren't even shots looking through windows. When somebody is sent down to the Social Security office at 39th Street, or to J Street for bed and a meal, they're gone, that's it. And this seems to be Wiseman's way of saying that he can never...
...anger was opposition to the seemingly endless, futile wars Lisbon had been waging since 1961 against liberation movements in Portugal's African territories. Many of them had spent almost all of their military careers in Africa. Not only did they bear the brunt of the fighting and physical hardship, but they were appalled by the wars' drain on their country-an estimated 300 killed annually and a continuing expenditure equivalent to 40% of Portugal's national budget. "The officers of the M.F.A. came to realize that they were sitting in Africa, living out their lives...
Only the real hardship cases--defense organizations and contractors, oil cartels, airlines and the like--have been able to get the government to increase their benefits or open the spigot further since then...