Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SCHENECTADY, N.Y.--The Harvard men's hockey team had a little extra baggage to carry with it on its second (and shortest) of three annual trips to upstate New York: the burden to prove that its last three losses in four games was only a minor setback...
...have a mechanism by which student groups can be created on a whim, and it's a burden to kick out money to those groups," Merriweather says. "In a lot of ways, we're [also] doing what [the college] should be doing anyway," he adds, referring to the USG's shuttles and other services...
...Texas Governor was swamping McCain in Granite State polls by more than 30 points. McCain, with his anti-Establishment appeal and his pow story, has all the momentum in New Hampshire, making him, not Bush, the candidate with buzz going into the first real debate. And yet the burden of high expectations hasn't shifted to McCain; it rests, like a steamer trunk carrying all the G.O.P.'s yearnings for the White House, on Bush's shoulders. After skipping earlier debates and visiting the state less often than his opponents, Bush must convince New Hampshirites that he doesn't take...
...instance. The strain is often made worse by the fact that families aren't prepared for the role of caregiver. In addition to coping with the sadness of a loved one's illness, they simply don't know what to do or where to turn to relieve the burden. Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D., gerontologist and author of Age Power, suggests that the most vital thing a caregiver can do is find a trusted adviser--"a person, not a pamphlet"--to help lead a family through the thickets of health care, financial and emotional questions. "Families should assume that they're grappling...
...adds that the question of the University subsidizing daycare arises from time to time, and she hopes that steps will be taken in the future. Doherty is acutely aware of the burden of childcare - her third child just entered kindergarten...