Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very much of the ornamentation most music scholars today believe was a critical part of performances in the composer's time. Most of all, there's a surprisingly lackadaisical air about Mozart's music as Losey presents it--as though the added visual verisimilitude could take some of the burden off the music and let the singers take it easy for a change...
Institutional expansion removes homes from the market in a time of dire housing shortage in Cambridge, and increases the tax burden on the rest of the city. It also contributes to the destruction of residential neighborhoods...
...catch is that MIC policyholders will be charged higher deductibles on claims-$500 on the majority of crashes instead of the standard $200. Rates for the accident-prone rise steeply. But that is the whole idea: to shift more of the financial burden to those responsible for wrecks. Adults and adolescents alike will have an even stronger incentive to slow down and stay sober...
Accusing the Carter administration of bungling the nation's energy and inflation problems with too much government interference. Reagan told his Dorchester audience that the burden of these failures falls on the middle class...
...troublesome early start of campaign '80 is the result of the incredible burden the candidates face in having to compete for convention delegates in 36 primaries across the nation. In 1968 there were only 17 primaries, but now the need to organize in so many places, and the need to campaign personally in all sections of the country, has forced the rivals into ever earlier activity. Will the seemingly endless electioneering burn out both the workers and the voters long before next year's Election Day? In Florida, where Democrats are just recovering from the struggle over delegates...