Word: burdening
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...offensive was largely a U.S.-led affair, this time Afghan forces will account for about half of the troops involved. Operation Moshtarak - "Together" in the Afghan Dari language - is meant to signal growing cooperation between Afghan and foreign forces, and the Afghans' ability to shoulder more of the burden of defending their country. "The Afghan forces all have Marine haircuts right now," McChrystal noted of the local troops preparing to storm the town alongside U.S. Marines. (See pictures of challenges British troops faced in Helmand...
...nothing else, the fact that online donations track so closely with media coverage means that the newspapers and broadcasters may soon have even more control over which relief efforts receive aid dollars. This puts an even greater burden of responsibility on media outlets to cover the regions that need the most help...
...University official who wished to remain anonymous said that the increase in workload is a burden that all Harvard employees have had to address...
...long bus ride the night before to the burden carried by Harvard last Saturday, and the blowout starts to make a little bit more sense...
...flight deck is a conference room outfitted with plugs and portals and a lacquered table at which the relaxed Secretary sat in jeans, loafers and a pressed button-down, on the way back home from Afghanistan and Iraq. We'd been talking about the stress of congressional hearings, the burden of sending young men and women to war, and just as our conversation was drawing to a close, he said, "I always used to tell people that Texas A&M football caused me more stress than any job I've ever had. And they always thought I was exaggerating...