Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started with a coaching plan at the beginning of the year, everything went perfectly for us except for Thomas getting hurt," said Fish, whose team will face the additional burden of playing on Georgia's home courts in Athens. "As a regional representative you have to keep some credibility and by pretending that Thomas is perfect is not the way we do things. If Thomas had not gotten hurt we would have been the 12th seed and it would have been a whole different story...
...time of year when much of the Harvard community is concerned only with summer plans and finals. Seniors, vacating the Houses for the last time June, face an additional burden: what to do with all that accumulated dorm furniture...
...work with radioactivity (personality tic) and a degenerative muscular disease; her husband just left her and she asks her son to euthanize her when her illness gets too severe (societal problem; two, if you count the separation). Hex, her son, has to decide whether he can shoulder the burden of caring for his mother alone (societal problem) even as he copes with his alcoholism and is sever stammer (personality tics...
...department needs more professors. "No chair will ever say they've got enough faculty, that would send the wrong message to the Dean [of the Faculty]," MacFarquhar said. "Our ratio of faculty-to-students is not favorable relative to other comparable institutions. [We need] more faculty to shoulder the burden...
While we support the effort to increase interaction between students of different races, ethnicities, and religions, we believe the price that students of color must pay under the present policy is particularly high. The perception among many is that randomization places the burden of diversification firmly on the shoulders of individual minority students, who are now forcibly dispersed across the campus. By sprinkling a "manageable" number of minority students in each of the twelve houses one does not necessarily ensure increased students interaction. In fact, we contend that randomization has actually stifled student interaction in many houses. Through public...