Word: burdens
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Because of Proposition 2-1/2, only 35 percent of $109.5 million in taxes to be levied this year will come from personal property, while commerce and industry will bear 65 percent of the tax burden, said Kevin T. McDevitt, one of the city's two principal assessors. He added that residential property will make up the lowest percentage of the tax base in recent history...
Healy added that the city might face "difficult choices in the coming years" if last year's trend of reduced state aid and shifting tax burden--among other things--continue...
Last week's elections provide a ray of hope. Several candidates running as political progressive were elected as representatives. These new council members now bear the burden of working together to convince the whole council to maintain the political role it has taken on in recent years--and to expand that role by building a convincing and progressive student position on what the University's mission really should...
...proposals place the burden of monitoring and disciplining researchers on universities, said Newburgh. "The NIH would step in only if it determined the university was not doing the job," she said...
This was my first crisis. Winning teams burden their fans with emotionally taxing tasks like check- ing the out-of-town scoreboard. But I was afull-fledged teenager now, and I was ready for thepsychological strain of a pennant race. In 1984and 1985, the Mets came tantalizingly close, yettheir second-place finishes were acceptable. Afterall, they weren't supposed to be any good. Theyplayed well. They tried hard...