Word: hardships
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Neither the economic nor the human success of the program is achieved without some hardship. Says Boston's NAB director, Joe Breiteneicher: "You've got to get whites already on the job to work alongside the black, the ex-con, the dropout, and we're often sending them all three in one." The new employees are sometimes met with hostility: a Negro in Boston was run down by a fork lift, another was felled by a dropped pallet...
Under my proposal, men would be selected for the Fair and Impartial Random System at age 19. Deferment would be restricted to cases of extreme hardship or conscientious objection. A young man would have but one year in his life when he was vulnerable to the draft--at 19. If men did not choose to enter the lottery pool at 19, they would be permitted to complete two years of college or technical or vocational training before submitting their names...
Free Land and Hardship. As Turner grasped it, American democracy was neither a perfected political boon granted to the Founding Fathers by a Protestant Providence nor an inheritance from European political theorists, but something else again. It was a unique, home-grown institution shaped on the American frontier. Free land, Turner argued, made Americans free and generous. Frontier hardship made them self-reliant and individualistic. Frontier challenges made them willing to cooperate democratically with one another. The absence of the trappings of privilege made them egalitarian...
Also, New Wiring. The first thing Helmsley plans to do at Parkchester is raise rents. An apartment-building own er can seek a "hardship increase" under rent control if his income fails to amount to a 6% return on his invest ment, plus 2% for depreciation. Having agreed to pay $90 million for the property, Helmsley will be in a position to make use of the hardship proviso. "Then," he adds, "we're going to put in new wiring, which brings another increase...
...must stay overnight), the courts also implied that they would no longer excuse many persons who claim that jury duty is a financial burden. Even women have lost some of the special status. It used to be enough to claim that being away from the family was a hardship. Now, only women who have small children or qualify for some other exemption will be able to avoid jury duty...