Word: hardships
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...addition to the immediate economic hardship, the ongoing liposuction in the nation's capital discourages would-be public servants in other ways. By taking a public sector job, many believe that they would be choosing a career option with far less job security, and without the rewards and incentives to make such a risk worthwhile...
...Forbes phenom that "it's like a new restaurant. You try it out. But in a couple weeks, the gravy doesn't taste right. The rolls are hard." The selling point of Dole's message was, once again, "adult leadership," a candidate who had been tested by hardship and proved his mettle. "We got Dole back on the course of talking about why he should be elected and not why Forbes shouldn't be," said a relieved Dole official last week...
...share the staff's concern for the finances of the University's employees, agreeing that families should be protected against the financial hardship imposed by serious illness or accident; however, the proposed limit on copayments is unrealistically low. Union members should be insured against major catastrophes, but a $100 cap on co-payments will encourage abuse of health services--prompting individuals to opt for unnecessary medical attention without regard to the costs...
...love the whole tall tale aspect," says Haig. "I mean, the homework is reading about Cu Chulainn taking on all of Irish civilization while his fellow Ulstermen are asleep. It's never a hardship...
Engel's production works best as a record of how people reconstruct their pasts; the subject itself, which relates a lot of all-too-familiar hardship, has lost its impact. Spoon River is occasionally sad, seldom funny, but not meant to be either. Nor is it meant to be tragic. Rather the mood is elegiac in that it tries to describe the need for people to tell their stories as they would like them to be remembered. History, according to Spoon River, is constructed piecemeal and painstakingly from scraps assembled and melded together...