Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee's plan is directed only at those students for whom the present requirement is an extreme burden. This is partly because many qualified students, feeling that the goals of language study are not served by the requirement, still "take more language courses than Harvard requires," the proposal states...
...chance to cool the economy's growing inflationary fever through a combination of moderately higher taxes and slightly tighter money. With an election in the offing, the President chose not to raise taxes then. With that, the Federal Reserve Board felt compelled to carry the entire burden of dampening inflation. Using tight money as its weapon, the board drove interest awfully high awfully fast. Result: while the economy is still laboring under inflationary pressures, largely because of war-spending, it has simultaneously begun to slow down...
...return." Lindsay believes that the city's agony of purse and soul begins at the ghettos' doorstep; while New York's operating budget has risen 150% in ten years, the cost of social-welfare services has gone up 222%. Lindsay hopes to relieve the mounting burden by changing the basic approach of public welfare services from merely dispensing cash to emphasizing vocational training and family planning...
...from 1945 until last spring, and a number of European countries have had wartime national-unity governments, the grand coalition is a totally new departure for West Germany. It naturally raised some apprehensions, both in Germany and abroad, about the fate of democracy without an effective parliamentary opposition. The burden of scrutinizing the government's actions will fall on the narrow shoulders of the Free Democrat delegation...
This reasoning may be somewhat difficult to follow -- you eliminate the deficit and then raise more revenue to finance it -- and Ford is vague on what kind of tax should be raised, when and where the burden should fall. But no matter: there are plenty of domestic programs, he insists, than can be profitably sheared. "All of these programs have to take their share of reductions. In general, I would say that a number of our public works programs could be modified, could be slowed down, could stand not being initiated so to speak in this crisis." Spending on antipoverty...