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...both leagues complained that Denver had violated the "four-year rule," which prohibits the recruitment of a college player until after his class graduates. The Rockets, explaining that Haywood was the sole means of support for his mother and nine younger brothers and sisters, cited a league proviso exempting "hardship cases." Happy to deny the N.B.A. another star, the A.B.A. went along. This season Haywood had a contract dispute with the Rockets and jumped to the N.B.A.'s Seattle SuperSonics for $1,500,000. The N.B.A.'s Chicago Bulls, among seven others, immediately cried "illegal player," conveniently neglecting...
...most distressing result of the industry's current misfortunes is the hardship borne by its laid-off workers. Many of the men and women who stopped working on the hornet-nosed SST prototype at Boeing last week had long service in the company. "I've been working on this plane for five years, and what really disappoints me is that I'll never get to see it fly," said one. "You really get attached to them...
...announcing the standard, Corkery said, "Rent increases given under the old temporary standard were rarely as high as 13 per cent. When we went that high it was only for hardship cases. Generally we found that increases to more than 12 per cent were too high...
...SECOND argument in favor of the RUS coed plan is that the higher ratios of men to women necessary for complete coeducation inflict too great a hardship on the women involved. Surely no one would deny that a 1-1 or 2-1 ratio is preferable for all concerned-and especially the women-to higher ratios. But how much preferred is it? Is the difference between 2-1 and 4-1 for the people in coed Houses greater than the difference between 4-1 and 1-0 for those stuck in Houses which can't go coed in order...
...considered at a time has been disposed of in a predictable way. A certain portion fail to appear in court at all, either willfully or because the jurors have moved away, died, etc. Then a certain portion is excused by the court on account of the financial or personal hardship which would result from jury duty...