Word: burdens
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Obviously the modern stage director has problems Verdi never anticipated. Dexter must work under the burden of the Met's ever-increasing operating deficit. He cannot build three or four different realistic sets; even with plywood, the expense would run a production close to $1 million. He must economize, but still make opera look grand. He should also take no more than a few seconds changing scenes within acts, the restless bottoms of Met patrons being what they are. Voilà! the unit set, that occasional blessing and frequent curse of modern stagecraft...
...bill now goes to the Senate, where Russell Long's Finance Committee is bogged down with the energy program and may not take up Social Security until next year. When it does, the committee will tack on an amendment by Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson that would ease the tax burden on workers by making their employers pay a bigger share of Social Security cost. Under Nelson's proposal, 1978 would be the last year in which both paid the same tax: 6.05% of the first $17,700 earned by the worker. The next year, employers would pay taxes...
...annually. If Egyptians were forced to pay nonsubsi-dized prices, Sadat might be ousted by a repetition of the food riots that rocked Cairo last January. With his we-won't-pay announcement to the Russians, Sadat is reminding Western creditors that they either have to bear a burden or risk losing a friend...
...nature of the Protestant-dominated provincial government at Stormont, but it is possible--and there are innumerable political precedents for this--that the British government was ignorant of it. Only when the Catholics rose up in protest in 1968 and the present troubles were ignited (and Ulster became a burden, and not an asset) did the British government reassess its position and begin applying political leverage. Its first major move was the introduction of troops in 1969 to quell rioting, particularly of the Protestants, who were gearing up for full-scale violence...
Stutterers claim that the public has little idea of the burden of a stammer. Michael Sugarman, a graduate student at San Francisco State University, says that as a teen-ager he always ordered french fries when eating out because "french fries" were the only words on the menu he could pronounce fluently. Says he: "So I wound up with acne as well as a stutter. That was my boyhood...