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...University President Lawrence H. Summers said at a study break in Kirkland House last night that he didn’t think “the burden of getting a couple of signatures on a form is preclusive...
...others at State counseled that the politics of appropriation would be damning. They suggest that an international panel could oversee oil operations until they could be handed back to Iraq. But Washington would expect Iraq's postwar oil revenue to help finance reconstruction, easing the burden on U.S. taxpayers...
...Medicine, estimates that colds cost the U.S. $40 billion a year--more than the tally for osteoporosis or congestive heart failure. "If anything, that number is probably on the low side," says Dr. Mark Fendrick, who led the study. He notes that earlier estimates, which had put the cold burden at $5 billion to $10 billion, did not account for, among other things, the fact that parents often stay home from work to care for their ailing children...
...even with the White House. TIME has learned that last Thursday several airline CEOs met with the key members of the Bush Administration economic team, including Treasury Secretary John Snow and Office of Management and Budget chief Mitch Daniels, in the Roosevelt Room to lay out the heavy tax burden they face and the $4 billion in government-ordered security mandates they have had to pick up. According to those familiar with the conversations, the Administration officials listened, but offered no commitments...
...dolls have been hung in a row with their bodies arrayed in various positions. The right-most figure bends at the neck, almost scrunching its shoulders. The next falls at the torso as if hanging its head (and entire upper body) in despair. The third crumbles under an invisible burden on its shoulders. The left-most doll’s arms reach to just above its feet. That final position is almost fetal—or fatalistic...