Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When he was asked whether he would make a good President, he answered: "I am willing to be President. I think I would be an adequate President. I really don't want to let you believe that I'm carrying the whole burden for the country. I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really...
...managerial and well-to-do classes, to persevere in facing the reforms necessary for a more just and efficient social arrangement." Facing up to Latin America's social ills, Paul declared, demands "progressive advantage for the classes today less favored and fairer imposition of the fiscal burden on the more well-to-do classes, especially upon those who own vast estates and on those classes who, with little or no real toil, realize huge incomes...
...tribalism is not only the black man's burden; it is also the ground of his being, and therein lies its strength. Nearly every Black African, even the most elegant minister in Savile Row suits, with a Mercedes in his garage, is a member of one of the continent's 6,000 tribes. However cosmopolitan he may be, he still derives his primary identity from his tribe, together with a loyalty toward his fellow tribesmen that is as fierce as is his utter disregard for any outsider. Makonde tribesmen still slit their cheeks to identify themselves to the world...
...city man's home. Ministers and senior civil servants can usually afford a separate wing for the "tribal family." Youthful civil servants cannot, and hence often ask to be sent to work in a village as far from their own as possible. To help relieve the burden, Niger's President Hamani Diori has declared war against "family parasitism...
...economy collected a surprise dividend last week from its new burden of higher taxes. In a move that most moneymen had not expected for weeks or even months, the Federal Reserve Board lowered its discount rate from 51% to 51%. Though the 1% change was as small as the Reserve Board ever makes it, it was an unmistakable signal of a general trend toward lower interest rates on all kinds of loans...