Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least acted. Johnson moved after Chairman Wilbur Mills of the House Ways and Means Committee changed his mind about opposing any new tax measures this year and agreed to give vigorous support to the Administration bill. That bill cagily calls for inflation-dampening measures whose burden would fall primarily on business rather than consumers...
When Amanda Burden was named to the Ten Best-Dressed list last year at the age of 22, she exclaimed, "But I buy everything off the racks at Bendel's." She was doing what comes naturally. No longer does the American society woman depend on Paris to supply her clothes. U.S. fashion can boast an elite handful of internationally famous "name" designers whose clothes, at their best, are as genuinely original as anything Paris has to offer. Lauren Bacall likes almost anything done by Manhattan's Norell, though she feels that Chanel has "a great look...
...agonizing decision: Should Coe have a hemispherectomy? "I never recommend this operation," says Neurosurgeon Charles W. Burklund. "It can only be done on a select few patients. Then, because of the risk, the final decision must be theirs." Says Mrs. Coe: "He didn't want to be a burden and lie in a coma for months." So they agreed that he should have the operation...
...anyone else." While Barth seems to be crudely baiting religion, he is actually enunciating his concern with the theological conception of the hypostatic nature of Christ-that Christ was both fully human and fully divine. Goat-Boy's Vergil on his pilgrimage is Stoker, a cynical beast of burden who may be in league with the devil and whose slogan is: "Never mind the question! The answer's Power...
...relieve a plaintiff's intolerable burden of proof in some multiple-cause situations, the courts can hold all of the defendants liable. This may be true even if multiple acts are independent and harmless in themselves-for example, when several defendants deposit in a stream minor impurities that wind up polluting the whole stream. Another possible solution in such cases is to permit the defendants to fight it out among themselves as to what share of the damages each should...