Word: hardships
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These failures . . . the Foreign Service offers them security, and Laos offers them high hardship pay. . . . They are usually almost alone in their offices or agencies in perceiving the true evil of the American presence, but they count on somehow being able to do their little liberal humanitarian thing...
...player until his class graduates; in Haywood's case, that would be June 1971. Explaining that Haywood was the sole means of support for his mother and nine younger brothers and sisters, the Rockets claimed that he qualified for an A.B.A. proviso waiving the four-year rule for "hardship cases." The league, locked in a bitter recruiting war with the N.B.A. (which has no such proviso), agreed...
...allowing couples to put off having children until they are older and have had time to enjoy themselves, to travel and to grow up themselves. The reduction in unwanted pregnancies will also lessen the number of children who are rejected even before they are born and the financial hardship brought on by unplanned large families...
...seniority by now, and they have many jobs in service trades, in which layoffs have not been as severe. Joblessness among professional and technical workers doubled, as did the number of persons unemployed for 15 weeks or more, a figure that is considered a crucial measure of real hardship. Early this month some 1,300 Los Angelenos turned out to take examinations in the hope of qualifying for 112 city jobs as unskilled laborers at $540 a month...
...administrator, issued a temporary adjustment of all rents to the current level, delaying the roll-back provision. When he finally announced that roll-back would go into effect on December 1 he confused everyone by issuing 158 temporary adjustments of rents to the current level on the basis of hardship to certain landlords in the city. Landlords said it was unfair for some to get adjustments and others not, tenants and members of the City Council pointed out that there were supposed to be no adjustments without hearings. Two weeks ago the rent control administration agreed to end temporary adjustments...