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...ultimate burden of sugar tariffs and subsidies is borne by sweet-toothed folks--and the manufacturers that make their candy. In all, the U.S. General Accounting Office says the program cost consumers and users $1.9 billion in 1998. The tab is pushing manufacturers to close up shop or move out of the country. Chicago-based Brach's announced last year that it would close its large manufacturing plant in the city and shed more than 1,000 jobs; it will outsource candymaking to Argentina's Grupo Arcor. Kraft Foods, meanwhile, intends to close its Holland, Mich., manufacturing facility for Life...
Granted, any dialogue in which Costner is trying to carry half the burden is going to be excruciating, but several exchanges in the film leave one wondering where to place the blame—on the stilted script or the poor acting. At one point, Darrow walks up to a table of friends at a bar, who toast his recently deceased wife (“Here’s to Emily!”) just like most people would toast a good night at the bowling alley or the purchase of a new car. It is a wonder that...
...tents and chanting are gone. The formal committee meetings are over. The report has, for the most part, been accepted. Now, the burden of implementing the report of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) has fallen to the University’s 11 schools...
...Unfair Burden...
...addition to high expectations, Ohno has had to deal with the burden of race-fixing accusations from the U.S. Olympic trials. Tommy O’Hare, a 1998 Olympian, accused Ohno and Smith of working together during the trials to make sure their friend, Shani Davis, made the team at O’Hare’s expense. Biondo backed up O’Hare’s claims...