Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Bennett became the vocal point man for the Reagan Administration as it attempted to slash student loan programs and shift the burden from grants to loans, Cavazos has publicly disagreed with such a policy and has said that he will "do everything I can to get the best funding possible for the Department of Education." He has also advocated an increase in Pell Grants to low-income students--a move that most experts view as vital to reducing defaults on federal loans...
Once more, Washington does not have to bear this burden by itself. The National Academy of Sciences report cites the Zacchaeus Medical Clinic in Washington as a superb example of an inner-city health center that has been funded exclusively by church and community groups and individual donors...
...evidence to show when or how often the prosecution had excluded qualified jurors on the basis of race, besides the case at hand. A dissenting opinion was written by Justice Arthur Goldberg, joined by Chief Justice Warren and Justice Douglas, pointing out that this reasoning unfairly put the entire burden of proof on the defendant...
...instant case," Goldberg wrote, "is really a unique case, as the court implies, surely the burden of proof should be on the State to show it....It is part of the established tradition in the use of juries as instruments of public justice that the jury be a body truly representative of the community. For racial discrimination to result in the exclusion from jury service of otherwise qualified groups not only violates our Constitution...but is at war with our basic concepts of a democratic society and a representative government...
...income housing funds contained in the Housing and Community Development Act. And it supported a substitute to the Catastrophic Health Care bill which would have sliced benefits in half, raised seniors' out-of-pocket expenses, and eliminated the Democratic bill's drug subsidization provisions, which would reduce the financial burden of catastrophic illness...