Word: burdens
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...airbases and other installations in the adjoining Negev desert at a cost of $4 billion over the next three years. The U.S. has promised to provide $3 billion-$2.2 billion in loans and $800 million in grants. Coming up with the remaining $1 billion will impose a fearsome new burden on Israel's economy, already reeling under a total foreign debt of $16.5 billion and 60% inflation...
...That is the conclusion of the TIME Board of Economists, which met in Manhattan last week to examine the future course of business. Board members cautioned that, although the rapid rise in prices will slow, inflation will continue at a punishing double-digit pace into summer and remain a burden for at least the next two years. Says Joseph Pechman, director of economic studies at Washington's Brookings Institution: "The economy could be in for a very, very nasty period...
Many speakers also criticized the Kennedy-Metzenbaum bill for shifting the burden of proof. The U.S. Government would not have to prove that a proposed merger might hurt competition, but the company wanting to expand would have to prove that competition would actually increase. Economist MacAvoy suggested that this approach was little more than a power play to make it easier for the Government to prove its antitrust cases. But, he contended, "the burden of proof should rest with the Michael Pertschuks of this world." The FTC is already empowered to act as both the prosecutor and judge in antitrust...
Wounds left over from Evanston's bitter integration battles of the '60s were opened again. With some evidence, a number of people believed the board had favored keeping schools open in predominantly white neighborhoods, placing an unfair burden on the black and integrated neighborhoods. Adding to the pain was the board's decision to transfer the nationally acclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. Laboratory School, which draws the best students from all over the district, to another building and sell the old Foster School building, which for more than 60 years had been the focal point of black...
...heavy missiles and Soviet land-based MIRVs. Afterward Jackson sent the President a detailed, 23-page memo, drafted by his right-hand man for strategic affairs, Richard Perle. "If further negotiations were to begin where the Ford-Kissinger negotiations left off," the memo concluded, "you would unnecessarily assume the burden of past mistakes...