Word: hardship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funneled. Last week Schalck-Golodkowski surfaced in West Berlin, offering to return some of the funds and promising to fight any attempt by East Germany to have him extradited. Crimes involving hard currency are especially offensive to ordinary East Germans, who blame its scarcity for much of their economic hardship over the years...
...faster toward a free-market economy; on the other are conservatives, who want any changes to occur so gradually that consumers will be cushioned from price increases and unemployment. Gorbachev is caught in the middle. The measured tempo he has chosen for perestroika has caused only economic disruption and hardship, at least in the short...
...booming voice coupled with a commanding stage presence enables Lou Ferguson to give Boesman, Lena's abusive mate, the realistic air of a man who has become numb to the pain and hardship of his life as well as to Lena's need for compassion and companionship...
...radical reversal from the sunny days of the 1960s and early '70s, when the region's rapid economic growth offered the hope of broad-based prosperity. When the countries' heavy debt burdens triggered inflation and stagnation in the 1980s, most Latin American families began sliding rapidly into hardship. This year Mexico's annual inflation rate is running at 17% (down from 52% last year), Argentina's, 3,500% (up from 388%) and Brazil's, 1,600% (up from 934%). Perversely, the rich have helped perpetuate the economic malaise by such tactics as sending their money to safe havens abroad...
Some soldiers make immediate and tragic exits. Bill Haneke is energized by President John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural speech calling for a new generation to bear any burden, meet any hardship. He returns from Southeast Asia minus a right leg, a left foot and an eye. Tommy Hayes, the son and grandson of West Point major generals, rejects the sanctuary of graduate school. In a letter home he writes, "My country has invested a great deal in me as a soldier. I should like to repay that investment." The price is his life, taken in the jungle north...