Word: hardships
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...sour as some 1,100 Haitian boat people were repatriated by the Coast Guard last week, more than the total number returned to Haiti in the past 10 months. Aristide, who has never agreed to forced repatriation, argues that the resurgence of boat people is the result of economic hardship, which U.S. aid would alleviate. He also accused the U.S. of seizing and holding thousands of documents that belong to the Haitian military forces, saying the records are needed to prosecute human-rights violators. The Pentagon insists the papers belonged to the deposed military regime, not the Aristide government...
...disseminating their misinformation about gays and lesbians in the workplace, Friskopp and Silverstein are encouraging people who are perfectly happy with being closeted to come out and reap the "benefits" of being out. This is dangerous, because many of these individuals will encounter hardship and discrimination as a result of disclosing their orientation...
...they must show more compassion to the poor and the weak, and return to traditional family values. As a crowd estimated at 75,000 listened,the Pope told them: "Not everyone here is powerful; not everyone here is rich. In fact, America's sometimes extravagant affluence often conceals much hardship and poverty." Moving to family concerns, the Pontiff called for an immediate end to abortion, and more family stability. "Society must strongly reaffirm the right of the child to grow up in a family in which, as far as possible, both parents are present," he said...
Instead of flowers, the von Stade family requests that memorial contributions be made to the Class of 1938 Fund, which benefits first years "in times of personal hardship or distress," the Cheshire Medical Center in Keene or the Dublin, N.H. School...
...expected that during the cease-fire, Ara fat's forces would stop harassing them, but this was not the case. And last, despite the relative quiet, Israel continued to clamp tight restrictions on Palestinian day laborers, ignoring objections from the Authority. That took some of the onus for economic hardship off Hamas. "The Palestinian masses realize now that it's not Hamas' attacks that cause their suffering," says "Faris," a Hamas guerrilla in the West Bank, "but the racism of the Israeli government and the weakness of the Palestinian administration...