Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everywhere he looked, the prospect was far from pleasing. "The unresolved problems of humanity," wrote New York Times Political Columnist Arthur Krock, "are as grave as any that burdened man before." In the U.S. in particular, things were in parlous shape. The Government, Krock complained, was endorsing "an evangelistic concept of world stewardship"; it had "discarded the most fundamental teaching of the foremost American military analysts by assuming the burden of a ground war between Asians in Asia." At home, the Constitution was being eroded by "the swollen powers of the President" and the "judge-made legislation" of the Supreme...
...product, less than the average ratio during the 1950s and little more than half the Korean war peak of 14½%. Yet, unlike the Korea war, which hit when the U.S. still had plenty of production slack and more than 5% unemployment, the Viet Nam war is an added burden on a substantially full-employment, full-production economy that has been expanding for 51 years...
...through the international monetary circuit and end up in a gold drain-an increase in its payments deficit-and ultimately pressure to adopt restrictive domestic policies. This point is critical to the position of my country." The U.S., said Ball, will increase its contribution only if others share the burden...
Even more important, if we should discover -- as I suspect to be the case -- that a high proportion of the victims of unreported crime are poor people, we would begin to get a picture of an economic burden not touched by our present criminal enforcement machinery and falling primarily on those already living on the fringes of desperation. And, particularly if we were to look into the reasons these people do not report their victimization, we might also be better able to understand the deep disrespect of many citizens toward our system...
...interest in teaching, research and direct participation in the process of social change. There is great excitement and satisfaction in devising, testing and helping to implement projects which may make the difference between jail aind freedom for thousands of people or which may result in reducing the frightful burden crime imposes on both the victims and the offenders. I can personally attest that the intellectual demands of the problems in this field are no less challenging -- and are perhaps even more frustrating -- than fighting one's way through the reorganization provisions of the Internal Revenue Code or Article...