Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much as to make their own citizens suffer. More specifically, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger believes that the newly rich oil-producing countries, which have quintupled the price of oil since 1973, are to blame for much of the economic anguish in the underdeveloped world and should share the burden...
JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL. Claude Chabrol's carbolic comedy about murder among the upper classes and the insupportable burden of forgiveness...
...budget director and Secretary of Labor and Treasury. The brainy McGeorge Bundy, 56, the former Harvard dean who is head of the Ford Foundation, performed with authority as National Security Adviser in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations (though his identification with the Viet Nam War would be a political burden). And then there is James Schlesinger, 46, who achieved high popularity after President Ford fired him as Secretary of Defense...
...major concern is his original brainchild, Marvel comic books. He regards his comics as the best in the world, and he won't let his other interests interfere with perpetuating them. He smiles shyly as he contemplates the burden of his responsibility to his artistic medium: "It's a mission. It's a calling. I figure there's Billy Graham, Mahatma Gandhi...
...welfare burden weighs too heavily on industrial states because people move in to improve their lot and become public charges when they fail. Just how great this problem has grown was underscored by New York State Senator Donald Halperin. The latest figures show that about two-thirds of the family heads who are on relief in the city were born outside New York State. The percentage of welfare mothers who were born outside other states with large manufacturing centers is 52.5% in Ohio, 63% in Illinois and 67.5% in California. The comparable percentages are 10% in Mississippi, 15% in Alabama...