Word: hardships
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...mission fails. Lundquist remains at large. Bell stumbles back into Nomad's hands. But no amount of truth serum pumped into him by Nomad can cure him of exposure. Physical hardship, and the bitter fervor and wild-goat odor of the corpus Lundquist, have quickened his sense of human possibilities. He comes to believe that-contrary to the Declaration of Independence-happiness is not a goal to be pursued but something that overtakes a man only when he hits his full stride...
Question of Negligence. The reaction of insurance executives is mixed. Donald Segraves, vice president of the American Mutual Insurance Alliance, which represents 115 companies, insists that the plan would work a hardship on victims. They could not collect, says Segraves, until they had exhausted all their other resources-accident and health insurance, wage-continuation benefits, union health-and-welfare benefits, Social Security payments and Medicare. A spokesman for Allstate Insurance Co. said: "It is easy to cut the cost of insurance when you cut benefits or prohibit recovery of damages for a loss...
With every account of hardship, there is an exhortation to greater work and sacrifice. Nowhere has there appeared an official suggestion that Hanoi should alleviate the suffering by calling a halt to the fighting. The power to make that decision rests with the triumvirate that succeeded Ho-Premier Pham Van Dong, Party Secretary Le Duan and Assembly Chairman Truong Chinh. Analysts in the South and elsewhere are convinced that Truong now ranks first among equals. Those with hopes of a quick end to the war can hardly take comfort from the fact that his name translates as "Long March...
...generally agreed that the physical hardship of giving blood is negligible. One donor said that his Red Cross nurse had soothed him during the operation by saying, "wiggle your toes and think happy thoughts...
More important, though, was Betsy Sable's point on this subject. "The hardship cases are the real problems here at Planned Parenthood. These women don't have the money to go to England, and they don't have the pull to get into a local hospital without the staff psychiatrists consent. Most have never seen a psychiatrist in their lives, so that they can't possibly have a mental record. And they usually come to us after it's too late to have the operation performed locally. They're the ones who wind up in the back offices...