Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Taming the Tiger doesn't sound like anything else on the radio right now; that's both the CD's strength and its burden. Mitchell refuses to rest easily in the folk-pop genre she helped establish. Tiger is composed of crystalline tones: breezy guitars that ring like wind chimes; crisp, jazzy vocals. A few of the songs attack pop radio ("Boring!" she sings). On other numbers Mitchell gets more personal, recounting her mother's disapproval of a live-in boyfriend. Mitchell's reply: "For God's sake!/I'm middle-aged, Mama." And on the album's best song...
...some don't mind the burden...
...Harvard continues to be very conscious of the burden on families caused by its tuition and to be dedicated to containing cost increases as much as possible," Lewis said...
Schools such as Cornell, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia all bear outdated long-distance carrier contracts. Each chooses to place an even heavier burden on international students than Harvard does by balancing lower domestic rates with international calling costs that exceed even Harvard's rates...
Moreover, why do Harvard students especially bear the burden of studying American history? Why force a physics major to name the dates of the Civil War when she may have no interest at all in the subject matter? We face enough requirements as it is, and most students have a pretty good background in the history of America. Even if every student doesn't, however, the same philosophy that Mukunda uses to justify an American history requirement can be used to justify studies in philosophy, ethics, classics, economics, or any other discipline that "would be nice" for students to know...