Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relegating study of the black experience to the same institutional forms which have resisted paying attention to the affairs of black folk for so long. If anything constructive has come out of the past week's morass it is certainly that Harvard cannot take up the black man's burden without knowing what it's all about...
...will be unable to protect themselves until they achieve political and economic stability-and that will require foreign aid. The Vice President advocates more U.S. economic aid, while Nixon hopes to hold it down by giving aid to fewer countries and inducing affluent allies to carry more of the burden. He overlooks the fact that France, Britain and several other European countries already divert larger shares of their national incomes to foreign aid than the U.S.'s .6%. The U.S. certainly can give more. In addition, says French Editor-Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the U.S. should improve...
...cost the nation of 2,669,000 people more than $1 billion, and Israel is still paying the price of victory. Since the war, the military budget has more than doubled, to $800 million - equal to 18% of the gross national product - partly because of the burden of defending conquered Arab lands. Just to administer the "new territories" costs $40 million a year. The bills are so big that Israel recently had to cut $100 million from public-works projects in order to meet the government's payrolls...
...campaign began with a bang and hurriedly converted itself into a whimper. When the plan was announced earlier this month by Wesley E.Profit '69, the election of the new slate seemed to promise a radical transformation of the Coop from a moribund and insensitive burden on the Cambridge community into a major force for social equality and change...
...already know about the character at the time of the songs. (As with their past projects, Kander and Ebb's biggest difficulty this time is their occasional loss for a solid song idea.) Perhaps if they find the right approach for a Zorba number in the first act, the burden on the book would be eased--thereby permitting some necessary cutting in this now-overlong...