Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pool places only a modest burden on the wallet at a time when dinner and an evening out for two can inflict triple-digit damage. "It's cheap entertainment," says New York banker Stephen Eisenstein. "You can come by and meet a friend and chat -- or not -- as you choose." Nor is the sport as physically demanding as the swingles scene. Says real estate investor Miles Levine: "Sex and drugs are out. We're going back to a more conservative time...
...number of Soviet tanks in East Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. If George Bush can build on it, this surprise announcement could reinvigorate conventional arms-control talks, which in turn could help the U.S. out of its budget morass and alleviate strains within NATO over how to share the burden of maintaining a sturdy conventional and nuclear defense...
...this was not the time for recriminations, as the Soviets, aided by an outpouring of worldwide concern, sought to shoulder the burden of their great tragedy. It was bitter irony that a leader who had just traveled half a world to talk of peace should return to a land that was, in the words of a Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent, "like coming into a war, a cruel and modern...
...said his "greatest burden" was to have to order troops into "danger...to where their lives are threatened, to where their lives are taken." He later expanded that, noting the continued captivity of hostages in the Middle East...
...responses of two panelists who opposed the court-ordered remedy shed light on arguments against judicial remedies, and are grounded in assumptions, that the court is activist and insensitive to the claims of those who must bear the burden of court-ordered decrees...