Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court split sharply on how it had arrived at where it was, the meaning of its new position was plain. The decision gave FPC a free hand to set utility rates on any basis it wishes. The only guidepost is whether the rates are "just and reasonable." But the burden of proof is on the utilities...
...timetable was set, the weapon almost forged. Now the men to command the attack on the German heartland were chosen. The division of command gave sobering impressions: in the hard, costly attack from the west, U.S. troops will bear a major burden. In whatever venture develops from the south, British troops will carry the show...
Reverse Pyrge. Was the South really going to secede again-this time from the Democratic Party? Not even Joe Bailey thought that probable. "I have been thinking over the burden of that speech for a long time," he said afterward, "and I felt that the time had come to utter it. The important thing is not that the announcement was made. The important thing was that, for the first time in 79 years, it could be justifiably made...
...keep taxes sky-high in fat years, as they must be kept to lay away a cushion for the lean? Mr. Chase is not sure. Practically any politician could set his mind at rest instantly with the obvious answer: No. "Americans," he writes, "traditionally regard taxes as a burden and a waste, if not an outrage. . . . They will have to change their ideas and begin to think about taxes the way they have been taught to think about insurance. You pay now in order to avoid calamity later...
This time, others were sharing the burden...