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MAAB does sometimes give exemptions to accessibility requirements if meeting the code would impose an undue financial burden. But with an endowment that exceeds $13 billion, state and federal authorities aren't particularly sympathetic to Harvard's cries of poverty...
Davis and Triantafillou said they saw no problems with the current tax rates. According to Davis, businesses should be responsible for a large share of the tax burden. Triantafillou said Cambridge's tax rates are not much higher than those of surrounding cities...
...written work feels rough in places, as though Shepard is simply marking time between the dramatic flashpoints of his play. Kellerman seems uncertain what to do with this between time, with the unfolding of character histories and endless plot complications. At times the dialogue almost becomes a burden to the play, an interruption to its more powerful, silent moments...
...best pieces of advice my father ever gave me came after Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. "Never place the burden of your life's happiness in the hands of others," he said, "especially the Red Sox." I was only eight years old and devastated by Boston's loss at the hands--or feet--of Bill Buckner. My dad, himself a diehard fan for now more than 50 years, was trying to put a brave face on things while also teaching me an important "life lesson...
...poor countries develop their economies in the same wasteful way industrial nations have, population growth will put an increasing burden on food and water supplies and the habitat of endangered species In the future, a new world order looms...