Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city's mayoral race with 109,982 votes over Attorney-Restaurant Owner Harold Dobbs (94,089). A moderate Democrat and political newcomer who had the support of both Big Labor and retiring Mayor Jack Shelley, Alioto promised that his first action would be to reduce the tax burden on homeowners...
...them professors appointed by Pusey, the other half students (elected House by House, or selected from a wide range of organizations, or--least desirable, to Hoffmann--appointed by Pusey). That sort of committee would not only discover government finances but include members who stoutly advocate maintaining them. And the burden would be on radical members to make a persuasive case for their elimination...
...inaugural address was squarely in the old spine-tingling tradition. "Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country." And more: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." There was an affirmation in the best spirit of patriotic oratory, and it forced the blood up into the temples of people who never really expected to feel that...
Despite the burden of such a legacy, Russia is changing faster and in more ways than at any time in its history. Instead of the fiery prophet Lenin, the obsessed and brutal Stalin or the bub bly and unpredictable Khrushchev, it is led today by an oligarchy of sober, cautious bureaucrats who embody the country's new striving for respectability. Under the aegis of Premier Aleksei Nikolaevich Kosygin, 63, whose hound-dog countenance is better known in the West than the two or three others with whom he shares power, the government is experimenting with economic liberalization and cautiously...
Readily conceding that a 30-hour driving course, and perhaps the level of instruction in Mississippi, left much to be desired, McGuire maintained that similar conditions exist in many states. Said McGuire: "I am not condemning or praising, but I am saying that the burden of proof is now on driver education to prove it is effective." The headlong rush to invest millions of dollars in driver-education courses should be halted, he argued, and a small portion of the money spent on further tests to assess their value...