Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call for an emergency program that would justify larger federal deficits and further inflation . . . A century and a half ago, George Washington gave us good advice. He said we should keep a good national defense. He also said we should not ungenerously impose upon our children the burden which we ourselves ought to bear...
...quality, character and method of their instruction--is permitted since they are institutions in which the public has a "substantial interest." But it also provides that such defamatory criticism, that is criticism which holds the institution up to "ridicule, hatred or contempt," must be based on true facts. The burden of truth lies with the defendant in the libel suit...
...Marines effectively ended the cycle of revolutions, disarmed rebels and bandits in mountain warfare (the death toll: 1,500 Haitians), restored peasants to the land, improved health and sanitation, built roads. Setting up a small gendarmerie, they lifted from Haiti the crushing burden of an army that once had 6,500 general and staff officers. They trained civil servants, building a nucleus of Haitians competent to run the machinery of government. Most important, they set up rural schools, where peasants could begin to get the education they needed to compete with the elite. Such was the reputation of the Americans...
More important, a compulsory insurance system by its very nature should have the same basic rate for every citizen. Zoned rates are not objectionable when insurance is voluntary, for there is no compulsion to buy. But when made compulsory, it places an unfair burden upon certain citizens. These people are, in effect, being forced to pay more than others for the use of roads that are freely open to everyone...
With success and prosperity come responsibilities. One of West Germany's new responsibilities should be a share of the free world's arms burden. Another would be to permit more of the fruits of success to reach its own people, thus easing some of the pressure on exporters. To this end, Germany is already working on a plan to lift some import restrictions and cut taxes in order to raise purchasing power. In such ways it can insure its own future as a working capitalist democracy and reduce the threat of a trade war that might split...