Word: burdenered
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...World Bank announced this week that while China's growing economy had lifted a half billion people out of poverty from 1981 to 2004, medical costs remained one of the top financial threats to low-income rural residents. With that burden in mind, Beijing has said it will spend $125 billion over the next three years building thousands of clinics and hospitals and expanding basic health care coverage to 90% of the population. "This commitment to improve equitable access to essential health care for all in China is quite important," says Sarah Barber, a China-based World Health Organization expert...
...most people, fat is a burden. It doesn't really matter whether it appears as cellulite on our thighs or cholesterol in our veins - we just don't want...
...status quo have their merits. Over the past two years, global dependence on the dollar has been at the heart of the world's nastiest economic problems. Early in 2008, a weakening dollar was a factor in spiking prices of energy, commodities and food, which placed a disproportionate burden on the limited incomes of the poor. The dollar-dominated system has also allowed the U.S. to finance its budget and trade deficits at a low cost, which perpetuated the global imbalances that contributed to the current economic crisis. A system like the one proposed by Beijing, argues Deutsche Bank economist...
...Duplicity, Roberts' first flat-out starring role in more than five years, has cued epidemic amounts of head-scratching from the industry solons. Is it just that the masses don't want to see sophisticated espionage capers starring, ugh, a girl? For now, let's not put the burden on Julia. Best to blame the title, which promises the average moviegoer nothing except a problem pronouncing it to the multiplex ticket seller. Only two live-action films with one-word, four-syllable titles have ever grossed more than $100 million total; and the two that did, Phenomenon and Collateral, just...
...important aspect the decision stopped short of following California's lead. In California, Chief Justice Ronald George declared that from now on, any laws that discriminate against gays in California are presumptively unconstitutional and will be subject to "strict-scrutiny" analysis by the courts - a burden that is reserved in every other state for cases involving discrimination against religion or immutable characteristics such as race. By extending it to homosexuals, the California court made clear in a way that no other state court has that gays are deserving of fundamental protections...