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That means he is a perfect citizen of what we might call Andersonville, that cheerless Southern California tract of warehouses, alleys and unwelcoming apartments whose prisoners suffer the blind assaults of grim fate without a murmur, without even the consolations of, say, existentialism to lighten their burden. This movie is the writer-director's most airless exploration of this postmodernist's Yoknapatawpha County, an antimovie that rejects even the most minimal obligations to character and plot that commercial films are supposed to respect. Stuff happens to Anderson's people. They just keep soldiering...
...continue to suffer. Concentrators should not feel that in order to write a thesis they have to ally themselves with a professor and choose an area of focus during their sophomore year. Advisers should never discourage thesis writing or imply that it would impose too much of a burden on the department or its faculty. It is daunting enough to have to devote an entire year to research; students’ dedication to such an intensive project should be their only obstacle...
REINHARDT: This shifting to the sick is absolutely there. There will be some overall savings, but there will also be a major redistribution of the financial burden of health care from the healthy to the sick, because the sick will, every year, have to pay the whole thing. Then the money that stays in those healthy employees' accounts no longer goes into the health system. Think of the health system as a hungry wolf. It will eat, and if it doesn't get it in this bowl of vittles, it will eat somewhere else: in the catastrophic policy...
Chopra also said purchasing cans and bottles, rather than kegs, would put an unnecessary financial burden on Hocos...
Collective litigation, on the other hand, does not seem to suffer the same legal burden as litigation brought by individuals. In the aggregate, juries may not need to second guess individual decisions; attorneys need only show that populations of people would not have chosen to smoke with full disclosure of information. The ultimate test of this distinction will not come until the first appeals of this type are decided, but there is certainly potential for success. As Goldman Sachs tobacco analyst Marc Cohen points out when analyzing the legal threats of individual and collective lawsuits, “The real...