Word: burdenered
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...developing world, and 1.7 million people died from it. More alarming is a growing subset of TB cases, estimated at half a million, that are resistant to more than one of the handful of anti-TB drugs. While they still make up only 5% of the total annual TB burden, these cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB are mushrooming, fueled by both the surge in H.I.V./AIDS and health systems that have ignored the threat of TB for too long...
...Instead, stimulus is quickly becoming the order of the day. Taiwan recently unveiled a $5.6 billion spending package for its sagging economy that included subsidized mortgages and new infrastructure projects. Japan's Cabinet on Sept. 29 proposed a $17 billion supplementary budget to help ease the burden of high energy and food prices on businesses. Newly installed Prime Minister Taro Aso is also calling for tax cuts to boost domestic demand. "Rebuilding the Japanese economy is an issue of utmost urgency," Aso said in his first policy speech. China, which could see its GDP growth rate fall below 10% next...
...Brown was by no means alone in his folly. Banks and financial institutions throughout the Western world acted as if the economic cycle was a thing of the past. Instead of understanding that the longer the debt-fueled boom lasted and the greater the debt burden became, the greater would be the carnage when the inevitable day of reckoning arrived, they acted as if the longer the good times lasted the more they could be regarded as a permanent fixture...
...politics, to finish the circle, might end up being more important for future jobs than one would think. A little-noticed provision added to the bailout bill over the weekend would, in five years time, remove the burden of today’s bank woes from the backs of taxpayers and dump them right back from where they came. If the troubled-securities bought by the Treasury Department aren’t worth what the Treasury paid for them, the president must submit a plan to use new taxes to recover the government’s losses from the finance...
...President Bush’s sentiments, Senator John McCain proclaimed, “Never before in the history of our nation has so much power and money been concentrated in the hands of one person.” In a way, President Bush is correct when he puts the burden on Congress to act. But, it should act on the American people’s interest and not Paulson’s. To Congress’s credit, it proposed some limitations on Paulson’s power in the plan. That said, these modifications were not adequate to make...