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...know you have considered many aspects of the energy crisis and the hardship people will be facing. But has anyone considered the problems of a family like ours...
...witness to one of the age's most massive and systematic assaults on individualism, she also salvaged an era of epic hardship and courage from the limbo of censored history. The book began with Mandelstam's first arrest in 1934 for a poem that described the dictator as a tribal hetman savoring each death like a raspberry. Thereafter, the impoverished Mandelstams were hounded all over Russia by vengeful bureaucrats...
...factors: they would be lower for people who live close to good public transportation than for drivers who live in areas like Los Angeles and have to commute many miles to work. Three percent of all coupons would be held in reserve in each state to be distributed to "hardship" cases. Some 5,000 local rationing boards would make the specific decisions on who gets how much. Most important for the average motorist, there would be a legal free market in coupons: a driver could sell any coupons he did not need, and another driver could buy them, just...
...Britain, this will be a Christmas of extraordinary hardship. The country is staggering under a savage double blow: the oil shortage and widespread labor disruptions. Together, the two crises have left the nation desperately short of fuel for homes and industry. To combat the problem, Prime Minister Edward Heath last week ordered stern restrictions on fuel use and asked Britons to make their greatest belt-tightening sacrifices since World...
...HARDSHIP ALONE does not breed peasant revolution. A whole set of factors, some as yet dimly understood, prompted Vietnamese peasants to leave their villages and enter the inferno of revolutionary war. Long has promised to examine this question in another study; judging from Before the Revolution, his next book should be a useful and important contribution to a growing debate among students of Vietnamese history...