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It is a legacy of the bitter hardships endured by Gold Rush hopefuls who set out to cross the desert from Arizona and Nevada.
Instead, it advocated a closer look at a prospective International Monetary Fund package, even though "[o]f course, an IMF programme would bring massive hardships for the common people."
In an editorial Monday, the Turkish Daily News said Turks are "thrilled to see the American president as their guest, especially at a time when we are going through some very hard days, having to cope with the national trauma of two successive major killer earthquakes and the never-ending hardships suffered by our masses because of economic crises."
The sordid hardships of post-war Italy — unemployment, the black market, and prostitution — have been made graphically familiar through the brilliant neo-realist cinema of Rossellini, de Sica, and Fellini.
Only in this case--unlike in Moynihan's--the redefinition has served to increase, rather than decrease, the required level of government intervention, shifting to the national treasury responsibility for hardships that individuals and localities once stoically assumed.