Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second "milestone," according to Bingham, is a shift in the financing of the HAA. He explained that the burden of carrying the athletic program is going to be shifted in part from football receipts to the University budget...
...This policy, if put into effect, would mean that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which now pays the HAA deficits, would be relieved of that burden; the University, either through this Faculty or some other agency, would provide at least part of the funds now raised through gate receipts, on a regular, instead of a deficit spending, basis...
Commenting on the purchase-card system at the request of Allen E. Kline '50, chairman of the purchase committee, Harris, who said he was speaking "as an economist who has some interest in the problem of financing higher education," stated that payment of college costs is "a great burden" on the average American family...
...receipts by $3 billion. Expenditures had increased by $1.6 billion. Cuts in the defense budget and international aid were more than offset by $1.3 billion extra paid out for veterans' benefits, $800 million extra needed to bolster sagging farm prices. Another big item was the unexpectedly high burden of underwriting the mortgage market for veterans and rental housing projects. It had been budgeted at a modest $200 million; it was costing a whopping $1.3 billion-an increase...
...Massachusetts, speaking on the "Lawyer in Politics" at Langdell Hall, said the public is benefitted because the man who has studied law has a knowledge of the constitution and can therefore make the legislative bodies adhere more strictly to its rules, rather than letting the courts bear the whole burden of upholding...