Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with alumni bearing such a large part ofthe fundraising burden at Harvard, holding a hardand fast line against such influence is difficult...
...costs of health care are so enormous that any plan that attempts to extend benefits to only a small portion of the population will result either in placing an unfair financial burden on that portion, as was the case with the Catastrophic Health Care Act, or in the misuse of funds intended for other purposes, as is the case with the student health insurance program...
Every few months these professors published articles in obscure academic journals laden with phrases such as "totalitarian," "spiritless" and "crushing burden of communism." When news was especially slow, they published their articles again in a different font...
...Harvard's strategy is not unique. Mostschools' development officers say the push tobuild alumni support has increased dramatically asthe burden of higher education's costs falls moreand more heavily on the private sector...
Three survivors carry the burden of Atkinson's narrative. Tom Carhart is a gung-ho lieutenant whose career is derailed by accidents and disfigured by a war he can neither take nor leave. Jack Wheeler is an idealistic Army brat who loses his military faith in the trenches. Postwar, both men have turbulent domestic lives; both resign their commissions, as do nearly 25% of their class. Both are obsessed by the idea of a Viet Nam memorial in Washington. But Wheeler favors the final design; Carhart, a lifelong iconoclast, censures the "black gash of shame and sorrow, hacked into...