Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political squabbles, economic pressures and social problems add to the government's burden. The Assembly, a hawkish group of men mostly from a middle class that stands to lose more from peace than the war-weary peasantry, distrusts Huong. Assembly members consider him soft on the issue of negotiations with the Communists. A Lower House deputy, Tran Quy Phong, recently threatened that "if Huong's government seeks a compromise with the Communists, it will be overthrown by the people." Inflationary pressure has mounted. Since Tet, the government has issued a billion piasters ($8,500,000) in new currency...
Loaded with Gadgets. There won't be any passengers aboard the McDonnell Douglas 188-only aviation experts and technicians to assess operating costs, time savings, and the feasibility of flying from existing airports without interfering with other traffic. Smarting under the burden of traffic jams at major airports and the skies above them, airlines and the aviation industry are scrambling for commercially viable STOL planes and the potential $5 billion market they represent...
...Whig as far as the powers of the Presidency are concerned. He frequently deplores executive encroachments on congressional powers. The Presidency, he says, is not an "incarnation of all of the hopes and the aspirations of the country. I think that is to put too much of a burden on the office...
...their identification with policies and decades blamed for the current mess. They are suffering form a rather logical--if unfair--guilt by association. But the apparent demand for newness and coherence, reflected in the apathy toward the front-runners and frenzy over the dark-horses, may be an intolerable burden for any of the candidates. That is because the issues which are the guts of the national discontent are simply not susceptible--in any serious sense--to the kind of simplistic critical discussion going on today...
...chances are that he meant this ominous burden for both. Julian obliged by becoming a distinguished biologist and scientific humanist. Aldous came equipped to be clever: his head was so big it kept him from walking until he was two. By the age of nine, he already struck others as "aloof and secretly critical...