Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...academic. Each side can now substantially destroy the other even without striking the first blow, and marginal changes in either quantity or quality of weapons will not change that fact. Hence a rough balance exists. Both sides are also spending heavily. However, proportional to gross national product, the military burden weighs less on the U.S. than on Russia. Mutual escalation could only end in a new balance at a higher and more expensive level...
...future displacement of tenants be accompanied by adequate and timely relocation assistance, including ample notice when the lease is signed that relocation may be necessary, personal assistance in finding other living quarters, and the provision of the equivalent of at least one month's rent to ease the financial burden of moving...
...humanizing the welter of regulations that governs the welfare system. At the same time, the Federal Government should assume all the costs of welfare (it now pays about half), leaving administration, however, to local and state governments. This one act (cost: $3.4 billion) would relieve the cities of a burden that threatens to bankrupt them. One huge advantage of this federal role in welfare would be to standardize welfare payments across the country, thereby possibly reducing the migration of the poor from states with low benefits to areas with high payments (in one important program, Aid to Families with Dependent...
...Guides. Such computer-aided college selection offers help with three increasingly pressing problems. The computer's prodigious memory relieves students of the fear that they may fail to apply to the right school simply because they have never heard of it. The computer also helps remove a burden from hard-pressed high school counselors. Finally, the program assures consideration for less well-known colleges that have empty places and need students but are all too often overlooked by applicants...
...fling at a slightly different role. In A Man Called Horse, she plays a Sioux squaw-even speaks her lines in the Indian language. The film stars Richard Harris as a British nobleman who is captured by the Sioux and given to Dame Judith as a beast of burden. "I shouldn't call it a Western," she explained. "Dramatically, it is reminiscent of Homer. His Greeks were savages too, you know...