Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cross, as the 89th annual conference of the National Guard Association needed no reminding, was a burden of criticism unparalleled in the Guard's 331-year history. And Mendel Rivers' philippic, which was extreme even for the highly emotional chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, brought an enthusiastic ovation from some 1,100 delegates assembled in Washington last week...
...Harvard language requirements is an unnecessary burden to a pitiful minority of students who could not get a 560 on a College Board achievement test before they entered. It should be abolished...
This strategy reduced the burden on the verniers, which then had to fire only 106 sees, to stabilize the craft and slow it to a safe 8.1-m.p.h. landing. The margin was perilously close. Data analyzed after the touchdown showed that helium pressure was down to 556 lbs. per sq. in.-just 6 lbs. more than the minimum pressure required to operate the engines...
Such assurances notwithstanding, many of the 7,000 firms that supply Ford with parts and material are sure to be hurt; a few started laying off workers within hours after the strike began. The biggest burden, of course, will fall on the principals themselves. The U.A.W., warned Walter Reuther, "will be tested as it has never been tested before." Proclaimed Henry Ford II, chairman of the shut-down auto company: "The strike will be costly. But the effects of an unsound settlement would be far more pervasive, longer lasting and, in the final analysis, even more costly...
...case of other increases, the consumer, as Secretary Boyd warned, is ultimately going to bear the burden. Some industries, notably meat packers, steel companies and chemical firms, said that competition and the threat of Government pressure might force them to absorb the higher rates. But most said they would pass the price increases along...