Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Almost 15 million of a working population of 25 million participate. Premiums, contributed equally by employers and employees, amount to 3% of white collar, and 5% of manual worker salaries. The insurance organization has a salaried staff of 600 doctors who serve members, but the main medical burden is borne by 15,000 of the country's independent practitioners. Their bills are paid half by the insurance, half by the insured...
...clean, fast hockey game most of the way, thanks to the strict refereeing of Paul Cleary and John Foley. Unfortunately for the Elis, who apparently were not used to careful refereeing, the burden of the penalty calls fell on them...
Lazy Louts. Committee members protested that the bill had been railroaded through after only seven minutes' discussion and with no hearings at all. Cried Wisconsin's Republican John Byrnes: "This legislation is dishonest ... In ten years, our veterans will be shouldering half the nation's tax burden ... I am unalterably opposed to this bill. It is no hot potato as far as this member is concerned...
...most part, Britain's Labor government had been content to let Colonial Office veterans run the unliquidated portions of the empire. Whenever it tried to make socialists shoulder the white man's burden, something had gone wrong. Out under the never-setting sun, one of the socialist governors turned more blimpish than Colonel Blimp. Another took his socialist mission a bit too seriously. The latter was Oliver Ridsdale, Earl Baldwin, the socialist son of the late Stanley Baldwin...
Strengthening Radcliffe's library will not only "maintain the identity of the College," but save a great deal of money, since Lamont would have required a 20 percent expansion to cope with an added Radcliffe burden...