Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...burden of too much business, however, may not be with Boeing long. Asia's financial crash has caused carriers across the Pacific Rim to cancel or delay billions of dollars' worth of aircraft orders. Boeing, which plans to build 550 jetliners in 1998, says the downturn may cost it some 90 deliveries--which could carry a value of $10 billion--over the next five years. In Europe, Boeing rival Airbus Industrie, pushing for a 50% share of the world's $65 billion-a-year jetliner market, is wooing long-standing Boeing customers and has been bargaining hard...
They do not call it a game of throw, though throwing is half the equation. The name of the game puts the burden on the one who receives, but there is really no game to it. Nobody wins or loses. You drop the ball; you pick it up. Once you've got the basics down, it doesn't matter if you bobble a ball or two, or if you can't peg it as far as you once could, or if you have to stare and squint to pick...
...Although the bill will actually cost taxpayers $13 billion over the next 10 years, it's loaded with real benefits for citizens: Shifting the burden of proof in noncriminal cases from taxpayers to the agency; helping divorced women avoid paying for their deadbeat husband's debts; a break on the capital gains tax for investors. After all, $13 billion spread over a decade of budgets isn't much to pay -- not for a kinder, gentler...
...couple, showing up at premieres arm in arm, snuggling in front of the President at the White House correspondents' dinner, became a gossip columnist's dream and a public relations nightmare. And just as suddenly, Disney's frothy little summer vehicle for Ford became the bearer of a heavy burden: Would moviegoers accept Hollywood's first avowedly lesbian leading lady...
This puts a burden on the stars, for the movie has to run on their charm. Ford's cranky masculinity is, of course, a known quantity, although it's always fun to watch him simmer, snort and eventually soften. Snub-nosed, wide-eyed and high-spirited, Heche has an equally conventional transition to make, from Xanex-popping, would-be sophisticate with minimal survival skills to a woman who can bop a bad guy with a fallen tree branch and help repair the airplane for a getaway. She is also encumbered with a tiresome fiance (David Schwimmer), who takes...