Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into Harvard because we are commanded to do so. "Enter," we are told by our guidance counselors, our families, our internal social barometer. Once the gate is open to us, it is barely possible to do otherwise. But if it was not our choice to come in, is the burden foisted upon us when we leave then especially unfair? Hardly. We did not ask for our intelligence or our privileges, but we did not refuse them, either...
...Guantanamo Bay makes all the difference. "Legally," says Branegan, "the refugees will not be in the United States." This means that normal immigration rules will not apply, nor will the full panoply of due process protections. In addition, no domestic community will have to bear the economic or political burden of taking care of 20,000 people. Both in style and substance, the goal is to make the operation seem as "temporary" as possible...
...meantime, we only hope that relief workers can keep pace with the constant stream of victims. The United States and its allies must provide the effort with all of the resources it needs. Also, while we appreciate the enormous burden it entails, we hope Macedonia and other states in the region will keep their borders open...
...Mickey wrote back. He told her that what he had done was an "unspeakable burden" to his soul. He said that if he could undo the night he killed Catherine and her friend, he would gladly give his life. Since then, Gayle has visited Mickey several times and corresponded with him regularly. And she has joined Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, a group that opposes the death penalty. "It is the way I honor Catherine," she says. "To murder someone in her name and to say we are doing it for her is horrible." Gayle sees herself as a spark...
...decided the entire laboratory staff should undergo polygraph tests to determine who was responsible for a minor injury experienced by one of the office workers. While the group was making real progress in developing the technology needed to produce silicon transistors, Shockley's management style proved an increasing burden...