Word: hardships
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...learned Portia, disguised as a lawyer defending Antonio, offers a remedy in her "quality of mercy" speech-the unfolding principle of equity, which the English courts were more and more applying in Shakespeare's day to ease cases of special hardship. As Shylock stands over Antonio, knife in hand, Portia says...
...easier credit and more technical help. Even the country's creaky judicial system will come in for attention; today it can take seven years for a court case to come to trial. "If the measures are coordinated," says one presidential adviser, "we can get quick results without the hardship which violent means might bring...
...only provided excitement; they also served as a constant, though unpleasant, reminder that the fair was in part a caricature of American affluence, wastefulness, and indifference. Situated only twenty minutes away from the slums of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem, the fair seems to deny existence of deprivation and hardship. What twisted irony it is that General Motors can spend over $50 million on a building that will be torn down in two years. With the exception of the Science Museum, the city pavilion, and a very few other buildings, all the rest of the fair will be destroyed. Not that...
Presidium member Polyansky, on the other hand, is only 47 years old. His first memories are not of the revolution, but a peasant family's view of the early Stalin years. He has not experienced the elation of participating in the revolution; he has only seen the hardship and slaughter that followed it. The policies he would pursue if he gained power would certainly, within the limits of rational interest, be different...
...weeks ago, they boarded buses, rode four hours to Puerto Viejo -the end of the road. There they packed their gear into dugout canoes equipped with outboards, put-putted for another nine hours down the Sarapiqui River and the San Juan. The fishing more than made up for the hardship. One of the world's ten top gamefish, the tarpon is a jumping fool that often runs well over 100 Ibs., can snap a line almost at will or make a reel smoke with his furious runs. Experienced fishermen count themselves lucky to boat one out of every...