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...concerned about the burden that we place on scientific and academic pursuits," she said...
...years, representatives of governors, mayors, state legislators and other locally elected officials have been meeting with mail order firms in an effort to work out the tax collection problem. Mail order companies had argued that collecting the taxes was too cumbersome and was an unfair burden on them with the more than 45 state and 6,000 different local taxing authorities with varying taxing structures and items they taxed...
...expected to pay no federal income taxes in 1998, largely due to new tax breaks such as the $400-a-child tax credit. Now the bad news: Americans with incomes above $40,000 will wind up paying 96 percent of federal income taxes, a greater share of the tax burden than ever before...
...World Fund is one of two student-run mutual funds at Harvard, together with the more exclusive Charles River Growth Fund. Like commercial funds, both let members pool their money and diversify their investments, reducing the burden of risks that individual investors might shy away from...
Like many prophets to come, Moses is reluctant to take up the burden. "I have marked well the plight of my people in Egypt and have heeded their outcry," announces God. "I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians." Moses responds with excuses and conditions: "I am slow of tongue and slow of speech." This line caused some religious scholars to assume Moses stuttered; others inferred a more serious speech impediment. "Who am I," he asks, to help undertake this mission? And who, exactly, is God to ask it? "Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh," replies the deity, which has been...