Word: hardship
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...breakfast, it seems to have also amplified a peculiar, age-old tendency among the more well-moneyed of our peers. You can probably guess which one it is that I’m referring to—the apparent obligation to demonstrate a visible lack of immunity from economic hardship, when such is clearly not the case...
Despite this hardship, the traveling also represented an opportunity for Conor, one his father always encouraged him to take full advantage...
...Haiti's Hardship TIME says, "We owe it to the survivors ... to help build a Haiti that will never again be so vulnerable" [Feb. 1]. Does this mean other nations can persuade the handful of families and businesses that control the wealth of Haiti to begin paying appropriate taxes? Does this mean Haitian leaders will direct foreign aid to health care facilities, water and sewage systems, education, job training and proper building construction? Or after this acute crisis has passed, will Haiti return to baseline poverty? The ethics of those who run this little country must change or be coerced...
...There's little doubt that tough times are ahead. Taxes will go up, and be enforced more vigilantly. Wages will be cut and jobs lost as the economy contracts. Many Greeks will also have to work longer than they had planned. But Greeks aren't strangers to hardship. Older people, who remember the poverty and instability their country suffered through much of the past century, are philosophical about the current woes and still have faith that the E.U. will provide the necessary stability. "We have walked barefoot," said Stavros Mihos, a 72-year-old former teacher, gesturing at his feet...
...fact, I spend most of my time listening to the people who - through their letters or through town-hall meetings or in my travels throughout the country - are telling me the stories of hardship and heartache. Losing their house because they don't have health insurance. That's what moves us here, but that's not always what comes across in the day-to-day combat that we're going through...