Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paying our taxes with the usual good-natured griping, we felt that as long as the people making much more than we did were paying their share, the tax burden could be borne with a feeling of having done our share, too. Now, we are hit between the eyes with the outrageous fact that the burden has not been shared...
Would he have remained as chief and taken orders from a black mayor? "Hell, yes!" was his answer. Still, his decision to leave at this time has probably hurt Bradley, if only slightly, and the black councilman-himself a former L.A. police lieutenant-will now have the added burden of proving to many whites that he is indeed for law and order...
...Arrow Roger Rosenblatt Micheal Walzer Robert G. Gardner Morton White Owen Gingerich Roy J. Glauber Martin Karplus Gerals Holton Sydney Colemana Mark Ptashne Roderick Firth Gwilym Owen Earl Kim Stanley Cavell Paul Cocks Francis Hutchins Alex Inkeles Thomas E. Crooks J. D. Watson Y. C. Ho Robert P. Burden Richard Cone Ralph Mitchell Howard C. Rachlin John Raper George Fix Nathaniel Carleton Abraham Flexer Peter Persham James C. Thomson Johan Hellebust Myron B. Fiering Charles F. Cleland Wassily Leontief Steve J. Poulos Ronald W. P. King J. R. Mcintosh Basur Rama Rao Lloyd A. Spielman Peter Hepler A. K. Solomon...
Even more unusual are the changes in attitude urged by the new guidelines. "It remains each man's burden in conscience," says one section of the recommendations report, "to decide the rectitude of his country's policies as a world power, or its involvement in the armament race, or its participation in wars against other men. And the decision of his conscience must be made known by every legitimate means, but especially by the exercise of his vote...
...that a parochial school may cost. A Catholic-school official in New York estimated that transfers into public schools will add $30 million to the state's education bill this year, perhaps $50 million next year. If all nonpublic schools in Wisconsin were to close, the taxpayers' burden there would be increased by about $230 million a year...