Word: burden
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...only opportunity for college education, particularly if he is impecunious (tuition for Illinois residents in $85 a term) or if his qualifications are unlikely to recommend him to a more selective school. However, the lack of selectivity which is decreed by the State imposes a serious burden on the University. Each year hundreds of students with infinitesimal academic capabilities must be admitted, housed, fed and seated in classrooms. And, unless standards are to be thoroughly profaned, after a semester or two they must be flunked out. The proponents of this trial-by-fire policy argue that no admissions system...
Another teacher asserted that the same attitude characterizes the administration's relations with the faculty. Mount Holyoke, he said, puts an exceedingly great stress on "good academic citizenship," and imposes a burden of trivial rules on the faculty...
...Progressive Conservative Party--wait and things will take care of themselves--emphasized the necessity for a stable government and responsible leadership in the coming Parliament. Diefenbaker's unwillingness to face such pressing matters of national concern as the bicultural, nuclear, and budgetary questions has placed an unnecessary burden on the back of the next government...
...helping to bring economic ruin upon the land. If there is no tax cut. claimed Kennedy, then "the country will, in the not too distant future, be struck by its fifth postwar recession, with a heavy loss of jobs and profits, a record-breaking budget deficit, and an increased burden of national debt...
Adverse reaction to the budget was surprisingly mild. Some businessmen protested that Desai could have eased the tax burden by slashing unnecessary government expenditures; others pointed out that India might have been spared the crushing new taxes if the government had spent enough money in the past to have made a more creditable showing against the Chinese. Grumbled one: "This is a high price to pay for Ladakh-even assuming we do get it back." But most Indians closed ranks behind Desai. Said one government official: "The budget is the clearest answer yet given by an Asian democracy to Communist...