Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aging Uncle Man'Antônio in Nothingness and the Human Condition gives away all that he has accumulated during an eventful, prosperous life. "He no longer questioned anything - horizon or eternity - peak or zenith. And so he lived, carrying the burden of years, erect, serene, and doing a doing-nothing with all his might, in acceptance of the emptiness, the ever-repeated inconsequence, of his life...
...asked originally for a zoning amendment which would let him build a complex almost twice as massive as Holyoke Center. When proposed last spring, the amendment was hit with well-aimed fire from all angles. Such a development would have over-shadowed the Kennedy library, added an unduly large burden to streets in the area, and disgraced the skyline of the City...
...wish to. By raising the juror's fee from $10 to $20 a day (and $16 a night for those who travel long distances and must stay overnight), the courts also implied that they would no longer excuse many persons who claim that jury duty is a financial burden. Even women have lost some of the special status. It used to be enough to claim that being away from the family was a hardship. Now, only women who have small children or qualify for some other exemption will be able to avoid jury duty...
...decision to raise the salaries, which was made in the face of a large projected budget deficit from 1968-69, was necessary to keep up with increased cost of living for teaching fellows, Dean Ford said. The raises will put an additional burden of $300,000 on the already-tight Faculty of Arts and Science budget, Ford said...
That role, which the pound shares with the U.S. dollar, has long strained Britain's resources. Accordingly, the plan lifts some of the burden of maintaining a reserve currency from beleaguered Britain, shifting the cost to the multination Bank for International Settlements in Basel, as backed by the central banks of 13 industrial countries.* The London Times said approvingly: "Britain has placed the pound in the hands of the public receiver...