Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That position was not acceptable to Abourezk and Metzenbaum, who flatly oppose any decontrol. They believe the increase proposed by Carter-28? per m.c.f. -would be an unnecessary burden on consumers without significantly increasing the supply of natural gas. Said Abourezk: "If the Senate votes for deregulation, even if it's lost in conference, the gas boys will be back next year and the next and the next. If we can get both houses on record against it, that should settle...
...final storm. Che confines himself to military reports, but the agitation evident before is gone. The diary has become an exercise necessary for sanity, as his health deteriorates steadily. For most of the Bolivian campaign Che had to ride a horse or mule rather than walk; these beasts of burden were continually sacrificed when there was no food...
...only argument that can be made for abortion is that it constitutes a means of reducing a burden to a particular segment of society. This appeal to social expedience is the same argument used to justify capital punishment and "protective reaction" warfare: the assumption that human lives may legitimately be sacrificed for the good of a society that is not under immediate attack. It may be painful to admit, but this view is morally bankrupt: Congress and the American people should not tolerate...
Pity the poor director who must shoulder the burden of a hackneyed plot. Damn the filmmaker who tries to weave too many new wrinkles into the same plot to justify the whole enterprise, thus producing a convoluted pattern that exceeds the limits of our credulity. Claude Chabrol has earned these conflicting reactions from his latest venture into the realm of the film noir, Dirty Hands, and his ultimate failure amounts to a minor tragedy. Seeing the 1976 release leaves you with the initial thought that Chabrol came so close to making a reasonably competent suspense thriller, only to blow...
...causal connections between payments to Boston and tuition levels are not well-defined, but if Harvard uses the city's services the burden of that expense should not fall largely on city residents for whom any benefits from Harvard's presence are at best indirect...