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...year-rounders, the winter means isolation, bad weather and hardship. The small towns that line the Outer Cape--Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truvo and Provincetown--depend economically almost exclusively on tourism. The creation of the National Seashore in 1961 insured the tourist trade during the summer by protecting the beaches and ponds of the Cape, but after Thanksgiving, few visitors are attracted; the motels, shops and restaurants close, and unemployment soars. In the winter, food stamps become a common sight in Wellfleet's First National supermarket and the number of welfare recipients and those on unemployment climbs...
...Edelin's fate, they may be less likely to take a chance on late-term abortions. The Boston decision is likely to please antiabortionists, who have been trying for nearly two years to overturn or circumvent the Supreme Court's decision. But it may well work untold hardship for thousands of unhappily pregnant women, who may now find that although late abortions are technically legal in most states, few doctors are willing to perform them...
Despite the extraordinary hardship and frustration she confronted daily, she never questioned the worth of her actions. It is unfortunate that she never lived to see the fruition of her dreams--the passage of the 19th Amendment, the Susan B. Anthony Suffrage Amendment, in 1920. But Anthony did have the satisfaction of knowing, during her later years, that women's suffrage wasn...
...want to force people on to public transportation by raising parking costs more than necessary since it imposes undue hardship on those without easy access to public transportation." Gilfix said...
...penalized because they tend to drive inefficient old cars that get poor gasoline mileage. Residents of rural and suburban areas would suffer more than city dwellers, because they are not served by adequate mass transit systems. A network of local rationing boards would probably be created to deal with hardship claims. But there would be much bureaucratic adjudication of minute details of Americans' private and business lives. By FEA'S estimate, rationing would require the creation of a massive bureaucracy of as many as 25,000 full-time employees. Even Senator Mansfield concedes that any rationing program would...