Word: hardships
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...Barbie and the CPI confirmed rising prices, real people were feeling the sting. Making matters worse, after adjusting for the cost of living, the average wage in the U.S. has been in a down trend for nearly two years. For folks making less, even a touch of inflation imposes hardship...
Thankfully, I was not solely relying on the CIA or the Department of Homeland Security for employment. But what if there were students who had been? Would their increased anxiety and hardship over finding a job be counted as a success by these people...
...made more difficult but certainly not impossible. Consider the impressive list of major corporations, starting with British Petroleum, and more recently Shell and others, and the hundreds of cities that are demonstrating what many analyses have indicated, namely, that the Kyoto targets can be met without incurring serious economic hardship...
Since Peru's exports may bring in only $3 billion this year, 10% of that total would cover less than one-third of the $ 1.1 billion in interest that the country owes for 1985. But at a time of extreme economic hardship and social unrest in Peru, García declared, the demands of foreign creditors would have to come second to the needs of his countrymen. Said he: "Let the peoples of the world hear me. President Alan García knows that Peru has a great and first creditor: its own people...
...traditionally regard as symbols of exploitation. Many blacks also resent the fact that under the new tricameral system, the Indians now have a voice in Parliament, however muted, whereas the blacks have none. Most of the time the two communities coexist in an uneasy peace, but periods of economic hardship tend to accentuate the differences between the have-nots and the have-littles...