Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...create any new taxes on dividends and interest--it merely ensures the collection of already existing ones. The Treasury Department estimated that the government loses $800 million in annual revenue through failure of taxpayers to report $4 billion of personal income from dividends. Their evasion merely increases the tax burden on other taxpayers...
...chamber orchestra: two violas, two gambas (played by 'celli), a solo cello, continuo and bass. In the first movement, all the instruments except continuo and bass supposedly take turns as soloists, and thereafter only the 'cello and violas play the solo lines. This distribution threw the heaviest burden on the performers in the ensemble least able to hear it. The 'cellos and violas had to struggle so hard and unsuccessfully) just to play the notes that there was no attempt at dynamic variety, let alone subtlety. At times, only Christine Atwood, string bass, and Larry Berman, continuo, seemed to keep...
Clearly stung by such criticism, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon last week answered back at a meeting of the New York Economic Club. The burden of Dillon's argument was that the real cause of the prospective budget deficits was not increased Government spending but the disappointing pace of the business recovery-which means that the Government's tax revenues will not be so large as it had anticipated. Dillon conceded that when a nation's industrial capacity is running full blast and consumer demand is strong, budget deficits "almost invariably lead to a rise in prices...
President Pusey's effort to draw closer to his Faculty by serving as Dean reflected the imperative need for understanding between Faculty and Administration. But Mr. Pusey's assumption of the double burden of Dean and President placed a crushing burden on his shoulders: in the two jobs, 159 departments, committees, and assistants report directly to him. McGeorge Bundy spent long hours filling the Dean's job, and Mr. Bundy, it was said, made decisions so fast that one never saw the problems. President Pusey does not have this knack for lightning commitment, and as problems have piled...
...complexity. Pilot, co-pilot and engineer are busy during every split second of takeoff-watching instruments, managing flaps and other control surfaces, nursing the engines, checking visually for other planes, and watching for birds that might get sucked into a jet intake. Noise abatement rules only add to their burden at the touchiest moments of flight...