Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That decision placed a huge burden of proof on plaintiffs in libel cases involving public officials. Equally significant, however, was something the court did not do. It did not define "public official," and alert libel lawyers and judges began to suggest that the words could really be translated into the far more general "public figure...
...excuse a student from an examination for which he was unable to prepare adequately because of illness. A physician's signature would be required, and the Senior Tutor would simply countersign the excuse if convinced that the period of illness was crucial to preparation for the exam. Putting the burden of proof on the student would minimize abuse of the rule...
...stamps, however, the competitive advantage vanished-while the fixed cost of stamps remained. Says Waldbaum's Supermarkets President Ira Waldbaum, whose 62 New York stores, along with the 100-store Daitch-Shopwell Supermarkets, dropped stamps last month: "We found that the cost of stamps was becoming an excessive burden and they were not as competitive as a few years ago." New York's irrepressible Rep. Emanuel Celler has called for a Congressional investigation of the trading stamp industry...
...Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel. Roughly half of these districts took the easy way by adopting "freedom of choice" plans, under which Negroes are to designate the school they wish to attend. These plans have been attacked by civil rights groups because "freedom of choice" places the burden of initiative upon local Negroes-who have to buck intense white pressure-rather than putting the responsibility on school officials...
...debate about the whole idea of guidelines. Missouri's Republican Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, ranking minority member of the Joint Economic Committee, calls the guidelines "ineffective in practice and dangerous in theory." The danger, he says, is that they shift to labor and management the Government's burden of fighting inflation...