Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consideration of the "fundamental" issues, the Committee urged that "some of the appointments which now go for research associate might go instead for tutors." It recommended that younger non-permanent instructor shoulder some of the tutorial burden...
...target: the so-called 65? Minimum Wage Bill, for which there is little love in Dixie. Southerners scrambled to load it down with riders the Administration could never accept. Examples: depowering of the OPA, curbs on labor unions, 20% increases in farm commodity prices. The strategy was clear: burden the bill with amendments and make the Administration compromise on a lower minimum wage figure...
Both Tory and Labor M.P.s hastened to agree. At the same time Attlee warned that the burden of working out internal unity and stable government rested on the Indians themselves. A familiar reservation and reminder was heard from the Tory side. Said dour Sir John Anderson, former Governor of Bengal: so long as Britain is responsible for law-enforcement in India, she has "a predominant right" to a voice in framing the new constitution...
...carried, as no other living man has, the burden of high responsibility in two great conflicts had "no official mission"; 71-year-old Citizen Churchill spoke only for himself ("There is nothing here but what you see") to the English-speaking world...
...loan that Canada's 12,000,000 people were now granting to the mother country was bigger, in terms of lender's capacity, than the proposed U.S. loan. Furthermore, it would saddle the Canadian taxpayer with a sizable new burden: he would have to pay all the interest himself, some $30,000,000 a year, until 1951; after that he would have to pay an estimated $12,000,000 a year interest (because Canada would borrow the money from banks at about 3%, lend it to Britain...