Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building more weapons systems than are necessary to ensure the national defense. Troop levels could be trimmed, especially if the U.S. insists that its allies share more of the burden of defending the free world. Defense specialists in Congress and the Administration can choose from among several possible cuts: reduce the size of the aircraft-carrier fleet from 15 to twelve and cancel two planned carriers before construction begins (a saving of $3.5 billion in 1992); cancel the Stealth bomber ($7 billion); kill the C- 17 transport plane ($2.3 billion); freeze annual spending on the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...year. Among black women living alone, the figure is 55%. For all the creative thinking on Madison Avenue and in corporate boardrooms on how to make use of the elderly as a resource, there still needs to be a comparable response from Washington when the aged become a burden...
...company. Last week Secretary of Education William Bennett released a study blasting the worst of the nation's 7,000 for-profit trade schools for deceitful practices that prey on vulnerable and often semiliterate students. The report lays nearly half the Government's $1.6 billion student-loan default burden on the doorsteps of such institutions. Many of the schools, which currently enroll 1.3 million students, have dropout rates in excess of 50% and loan-default rates to match. "The kids are left without an education and with no job," says Bennett, "and the taxpayer ends up holding...
...duty in the occupied territories. It is also raising fears among psychologists and army officers that the occupation will cause lasting damage to one of the world's most respected fighting forces -- and Israel's most revered institution. Israel's young soldiers are being asked to shoulder the central burden of the nation: to remain a Jewish democratic state while continuing to occupy the territories by force...
...cars before Israeli soldiers ordered them away. In the town of Tulkarm, rumors of further settlers' invasions the next day sparked violent protests that left one Palestinian dead. In Gaza, another died of his wounds, bringing the death toll to 43. Defense Minister Rabin angrily called the settlers a "burden" on hard-pressed security forces. But clashes continued throughout the territories, from remote villages in the north of the West Bank to the cities and camps of Gaza. Reopened only one day, all 800 West Bank schools and universities were recessed indefinitely...