Word: burdens
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...burgher prosperity and bustling stability, West Germany is not without problems. The burden of the unemployment falls mainly on the Gastarbeiter, the 3.9 million "guest workers" and their families imported over the years from Turkey, Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece and Portugal to do the menial jobs that West Germans disdain. As jobs have become scarcer, more than a million Gastarbeiter have been repatriated, either by inducement or expulsion; the remainder live as alienated poor in urban ghettos, cut off from the rest of society...
...that a $1 raise by OPEC adds $4 billion to U.S. prices and drains $4 billion from U.S. consumer purchasing power. Admits Inflation Adviser Kahn: "The standard of living is going down, and there is nothing that I can do about it. The question is how to divide the burden without tearing ourselves apart...
...Upper income families have always been able to provide for themselves, and universities and the government have often tried to help poorer students obtain educations, but the class now defined by income levels between $20,000 and $50,000 has largely been ignored. Harvard's attempts to ease the burden on the middle class rely on a combination of loans and student employment. Administrators are now encouraging middle-and lower-income students to help themselves by seeking jobs of their own, chiefly through the expanding college Work Study Program. As one administrator says, "You never have to pay back...
Though costs of a Harvard education have followed inflation's upward surge, aid to the increasing number of students who need it has risen as well. Reliance upon student employment represents a realization by both the University and the students that Harvard will not bear the burden of increasing costs alone; students get the money and Harvard gets the service. And students seem willing to take the jobs. Lyman notes, "There are people who can do it. We have more people applying and more people here than ever before. That has got to mean something." With a tenuous balance among...
...concrete action completed this year is to clarify rules governing selection and payment of graduate student teaching fellows. Students wanted uniform practices across all departments so all students had a fair chance at the jobs, to ease the burden of tuition and expenses. The new guidelines, drawn up by a student-Faculty committee and approved by Rosovsky, will take effect next year. Michael Moynihan, a member of the Graduate Student Council (GSC), says the guidelines tackle only part of the problem. "The kind of teaching one does, whether a graduate student can propose tutorials and have freedom from the syllabus...