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...year U.S. embargo, but Bill Clinton is not eager to end the cold war-era isolation. In the long run, if Castro will not or cannot adopt free-market reforms, his % country has little hope of ending what Cubans call the "special period": the current era of acute hardship brought on by the fall of the Soviet empire, which had sustained Cuba's command economy until 1991. If he does institute far-reaching changes and the rest of the world -- despite the U.S. embargo -- responds with trade and investment, he can probably survive indefinitely. His salvation lies in betraying...
...them. Now that it's not, they're so concerned with the lack of food, electricity and gas that they've forgotten about the . greater goal of getting rid of Castro." Albertini wants the U.N. to impose a total blockade on Cuba, even if such a move causes heightened hardship for residents, including his grandmother and aunt. "A blockade would force the people there to realize that the Americans are not going to invade Cuba and solve the problem for them," he says. "The change has to come from within. And if that means greater suffering for a while...
...settlers. Today the population of Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana totals only 1.3 million people, nearly all of whom live in coastal cities. Up to now the city dwellers have put little pressure on the forests or the few thousand indigenous Amerindians who live in the woodlands. But economic hardship and the lure of logging revenue have begun to make the region's natural treasures more vulnerable...
Lisa Carol Freemont struts her stuff and her street smarts by investigating the murder while Jeff and Stella watch from across the way. She is trying to convince her love Jeff that she can endure the danger and hardship he tackles on his photography assignments. She doesn't have to be holed up in some fashion salon or at the editor's desk of a fashion magazine. She's an independent gal who will prove to Jeff that even though she is from Park Avenue and knows the ritziest people in town (and could get him fashion shoots or portrait...
...goes through, "there will be a lotof displacement of low income people,"Triantafillou said. "I truly believe there will bea lot of hardship...