Word: beare
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Educated African Americans, then, will have to bear the responsibility--perhaps an unfairly greater and more burdensome share than in the past--of reaching out to and educating the remainder of the community. They will have to carry it out with the passion--with the intellectual militance--that characterized the pursuit for equality in the early 1960s...
...result, to use Ec 10 jargon, salaries, benefits and wholesale prices bear no relation to traditional market factors. For example, subsidized gasoline is sold to the public at seven or eight cents a liter when it really should cost between 40 and 50 cents...
Hard cases, an old saying has it, make bad law, and this one has all the ingredients to bear out that adage: a stubborn judge, two embittered parents and a child torn between them. Morgan met Foretich in 1981, while he was separated from his second wife, former model Sharon Sullivan. After a whirlwind affair, during which Morgan became pregnant, the couple flew to Haiti, where Foretich obtained a quickie divorce. But his marriage to Morgan broke up after only five months, scarcely a week before Hilary was born...
...removed from standard business texts. A member of the Reformed Church in America and a graduate of the church-affiliated Hope College, he fondly cites St. Luke's characterization of a leader as "one who serves" and endorses a friend's observation that "leaders don't inflict pain; they bear pain." In one chapter he asks readers to consider what makes them weep...
...shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." And again on June 18: "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, 'This was their finest hour...