Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities and towns. In essence, the Welfare Re-Organization Act meant the elimination of all municipal welfare agencies and replaced them with a state-run welfare department. Aside from assuring higher welfare care standards throughout Massachusetts, the state take-over also meant a considerable easing of the local tax burden. Municipal real estate taxes--until now the chief source of welfare funds--could be eased or the money put to other uses. For cities like Boston with huge tax rates and high welfare costs, the state's assumption of these costs would be a life-saver...
...poor are not "officially" sick, the rich man's burden is that he spends so much time convincing the draft board that he is unfit for military service that in the end he begins to believe his own put-on. There have been students who have gone through so much to convince their draft boards that they were crazy that in the end indeed they were...
...achievement, as was a high school diploma by World War II. Now the day is fast approaching when some form of college-level learning will be the national norm-and the M.A. today carries little more prestige than the bachelor's degree did a few years ago. The burden of quenching this thirst for learning is being borne primarily by the nation's huge public systems of higher education, which are expanding facilities, establishing branches, and blanketing their states with new campuses in an unprecedented explosion of growth...
...foundation operations. Nothing could be further from the truth. Only a very small fraction are checked in any given year." But IRS is now warning that it has "doubts about the legality" of ABC-type foundations and trusts. "Tax consequences to those who participate could be adverse," since the burden of proof falls on the taxpayer when IRS challenges a claimed deduction...
...hopes for an Allied occupation of Austria and influence in the Balkans. Macmillan mournfully charges that the Roosevelt policy, designed, with Stalin, to keep the Allies in the West, was "to exercise a baneful, and nearly fatal influence over the future of Greece." He notes that the postwar burden of correcting this "almost unilateral American decision [has] fallen largely on the American people . . . Thus were sown the seeds of the partition of Europe, and the tragic divisions which were to dominate all political and strategic thinking for a generation...