Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barricade of Boxes. Two days later, the general was back on the air with even better news. "Ghana's burden of taxation is the highest in Africa," he said, announcing a wide range of tax cuts on everything from basic foods to income. To spur the private enterprise that Nkrumah had always shunned, Ankrah pledged that private companies would no longer be forced to accept government "participation...
Sanford is instinctively very much a Southerner. When he speaks of cotton fields, he also mentions Northern ghettos; he refers to the summer of 1964 to show that the problem is national, not regional. He agrees that Southerners now bear the main burden, but he also believes that acceptance will come first in the South, "where the Negro is known as an individual, rather than in the North, where, as a comparative stranger, he is often feared...
Some ask how long we must bear this burden. And to that question, in all honesty, I can give you no answer tonight. If the aggressor persists in Viet Nam, the struggle may well be long. Our men in battle know and they accept this hard fact. We who are home can do as much...
...that the revised goals were within reach; others, that they were still a shade too high. Either way, they underscored the tremendous economic problems that Moscow faces. With 45% of the American G.N.P. and a population 20% larger than that of the U.S., Russia must shoulder a heavy arms burden, support costly space research, and at the same time meeting the growing and impatient expectations of 232 million people...
Most of this odd burden accrues from a key provision of the twelve-year-old Food for Peace program, allowing the U.S. to sell surplus farm commodities to dollar-poor countries for the recipients' own currency, which remains in the nations of origin. About 20% of the cash is earmarked for U.S. use, and part of this is absorbed by routine operations such as maintaining embassies and aid missions. The other 80%, though U.S.-owned, is reserved for the recipient nation's benefit...