Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failure. Once it becomes apparent that an illness is terminal, conventional medicine often seems unequipped, untrained and even unwilling to deal with death. It is mainly nursing homes-which are often dreary, costly and isolated from the rest of society -that seem ready to shoulder that inevitable human burden. As British Historian Arnold Toynbee once noted, it is almost as if "death is un-American...
...only major industrial nation that taxes its citizens who work abroad. They also have to pay taxes to the host countries, and many of these have steeper rates than does the U.S. To alleviate this double burden, the U.S. tax code has long provided two moderate loopholes. First, overseas taxpayers could exempt up to $25,000 annually from U.S. taxes. Second, they could claim a credit for any foreign income taxes paid. The amendment would chop the exemption to no more than $15,000 a year and limit the credits for foreign taxes. It would also tax the excess...
...than it used to be: car owners may be notified by first-class mail instead of the registered letters that Government agencies required in the past. But in postage alone, AMC will spend close to $40,000. Other costs could push the total bill to $3 million, a real burden for long troubled AMC, which earned only $2.7 million - peanuts for an auto manufacturer - in the last quarter...
...common intellectual basis. It is certainly true that in planning an education, we should take into account not only what we need to know, but also what we should know. Moreover, it is clear that the steady deterioration of American secondary education, public and private, places a larger burden today than ever before on the college to provide students with the opportunity of acquiring an adequate general education...
...sincerely believe that the above guidelines for action will give substance--a quality that has been sorely absent--to Harvard's claim that it abhors apartheid. More importantly, this proposal will place the burden of justification of corporate presence on those who should bear it--the corporations themselves...