Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hopes for an honorable settlement of the war in Viet Nam rest on a stable, representative South Vietnamese government, able to carry an increasing burden of the fighting and, within reason, hold its own politically once peace comes a chilling hours last week, those hopes seemed about to be dashed to bits. Rumors of a military coup against the elected government of President Nguyen Van Thieu swept through Sai gon and the Vietnamese armed forces were ordered on full alert. All the night marish instability of 1960-65, with all its coups and coup attempts, seemed about to begin again...
...Ford Foundation money has eased the burden of these cuts by suporting all the GSAS Graduate Prize fellows. Funds from the Faculty and from other outside endowments are therefore available for regular Harvard Fellowships...
Bundy said it was his "personal bet" that the Paris peace negotiations would not proceed far during 1969--even with the bombing stopped--but commented that it was nevertheless necessary to "lift this burden from our lives" by deciding to "steadily, systematically, and substantially reduce the number of American casualties, the number of Americans in Vietnam, and the cost...
...mismanaging the economy. "Why are prices rising faster than they have in a generation?" he asks. "Why is the American dollar viewed with greater suspicion in the central banks of Europe than it has been for a century? Why is the American taxpayer groaning under the heaviest tax burden in history? Because for five years the Administration has refused to keep federal spending within federal means...
...professors and other teachers into three or four faculties--quite apart from the professional schools--where other universities have a single Faculty of Arts and Sciences, apparently discourages faculty participation in the formulation of University policy and the improvement of student life. The central Administration to which the full burden of the quality of student life is left is not equipped for the duty. Far too few members of the University family are closely involved, outside the classroom, in the constant informal enterprises and discussions by which the values of an academic community are constantly reexamined and those which stand...