Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Needless to say, the lovers count for a lot in this version. The actors are more than up to the weight of the burden. Relaxed and elegant from first to last, Janet Bowes as Portia sails through the play with an effortlessness one almost never finds in a house production. As far as I'm concerned, Dudley House can put her in any part they want...
...certain to wane as the new P.M. is forced to make unpopular decisions, Trudeau is expected to call a general election at the first opportunity, in hopes of improving on his government's minority position in the House of Commons. Such a move may pay politically, but the burden of an election campaign will certainly add to the already considerable problems facing Canada's unconventional man in his first difficult weeks of power...
Previously, students living off-off-campus did not pay for these services, and a non-resident quota was used to avoid what Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, called a "burden" on college funds...
...businessmen and residents was signed into law by Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Starting Sept. 1, insurance companies in the state will contribute to a joint underwriting fund to share losses. A bill to establish federal riot reinsurance for slum areas, still pending in Congress, may lighten the insurance companies' burden even more...
...Britons affected by the tax is the belief that they are, in effect, being penalized for investing in the very economy that the government supposedly means to help. Moreover, by making the measure retroactive, Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins left them little time to minimize the burden by shedding their holdings. In defending his action, Jenkins pronounced it only fair that "fortunately placed individuals" make "some small contribution from their capital...