Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam remains an inexorable burden for the President of the U.S. For Richard Nixon, who entered office amid new hopes that peace might not be far off and that Ho Chi Minh might finally be amenable to agreement, that discovery was not long in coming. Last week continued Communist attacks in South Viet Nam forced him to confront his first foreign-policy crisis as President. It not only undercut his attempts to reassure Europeans that the U.S. is not preoccupied with Southeast Asia, but jeopardized the climate of calm and unity that he had worked so hard to create...
Inevitably, the crucial factor in the contest will be goalie Bruce Durno's performance. The Crimson will not be able to play aggressive offensive hockey, and much of the burden will rest on the sophomore goaltender's shoulders...
...afterwards, Abrams "made no claims and promised no quick victories. He merely demonstrated that we were in control of the situation." South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu spoke with confidence about the war effort. Asked by one guest whether South Vietnamese troops would soon bear enough of the burden of fighting to allow American troops to go home, Thieu answered with emphatic brevity: "Yes." Later, when the group presented him with a cutglass head of an American eagle, Thieu quipped: "You come here while we are talking of peace and give me a hawk...
...expected that the total for the first twelve months will go to at least 35,000, possibly to 50,000. Even though as many as 15,000 of these operations this year may be performed in private hospitals and nursing homes, the rest are imposing a heavy burden on NHS gynecologists. They find themselves spending half their office hours passing judgment on patients seeking abortions and half their operating-room time performing them. This, say some gynecologists, is not the type of practice that they chose or for which they were trained...
America's Burden. Under the VAT sys tem, companies at each stage of manufacture add a standard percentage of tax - 11% in West Germany, 12.5% in Denmark - to the difference between what they paid for the materials and the price at which their products are sold. Consumers ultimately pay the en tire levy as part of the price of almost everything they buy. In Paris, used car dealers drove through town last week in protest against the new 25% VAT "luxury" rate on their cars. In Amsterdam, a restaurant owner, cooks and waiters recently staged a mock funeral procession...