Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been trying to call an end to his three-decade Harvard career for almost a year now, but political infighting has blocked the choice of his successor and forced him to stay on. In the meantime, Watson, all too sure of his lame-duck status and unwilling to burden his successor with his long-term decisions, has his hands tied, and the department's activity has slowed to glacial speed...
...stands 377 ft. away. It was his 756th career home run-one more than the American major league record set in 1976 by Hank Aaron. Declared Oh, who was promptly named first holder of a National Hero Honors Order by the government: "I have finally put down an unbearable burden." Aaron hailed the slugger's achievement, cabling that "Japan has much to be proud of." (For another broken record, see SPORT...
...zoning restrictions to a "We've got ours, now close the door mentality" among people who already own houses. Their defense is that they want to hold down property taxes?by reserving land for future use by industry and stores that would carry a large share of the tax burden, and by avoiding an invasion of families with young children that would force up school budgets...
Environmental regulations jack up the cost of preparing sites for building; in many places that expense is becoming as heavy a burden as the price of the raw land. George F. Schoeck, a bank executive in Morris County, N.J., gives this example: "A builder used to put in a 28-foot road with no curbing. He'd compact it, roll it, lay two inches of black top and dedicate it to the town?and it would be their problem. Now the developer has to lay eight inches of stone with a three-inch binder coat of coarse asphalt...
...feasible in massive burn cases because the victim's nerve endings are anesthetized by the injury, leaving him lucid and free of pain for the first several hours. In fact, says Dr. Bruce Zawacki, 42, head of the burn unit, relatives have been "overwhelmingly relieved" that the burden of decision making is taken off their shoulders. Says Zawacki: "In the long run it is better for our mental health and the patients' mental health to lay the cards on the table." Part of the policy is increased attention to the dying patient's need for compassionate human...