Word: burdens
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...have to pay property taxes, they both make a voluntary payment to the city each year, in lieu of taxes. But Adkins attributes the city’s financial woes to the loss of taxes from these two large landowners, and argues that charging them would lessen the burden on residents...
...produce a pandemic vaccine before the pandemic actually appears-and so there may not be a vaccine capable of fully immunizing our citizens from the new influenza virus during the first several months of a pandemic." Taking a fresh run at an old goal, Bush said the "growing burden of litigation" had helped drive American vaccine makers out of business over the past three decades, and called on Congress to pass liability protection that would encourage more to enter or return to the business...
...before," an associate says. "He's very strong, and it's the first time since I've known him that he was fighting for his own political life and not his candidate." It was only after his fourth appearance before the grand jury that aides sensed "a burden off his shoulders," as though Rove judged from the line of questions that he might yet escape...
...Watergate, and there are few examples of Presidents who got into trouble this deep and worked out of it. Reagan ran into a firestorm over Iran-contra, and he was rescued by his relationship with Gorbachev and dealing with the Soviet Union. For Bush, the Iraq war is a burden he won't be able to shake until he can end the conflict. All the rhetoric about democracy, the Iraqi constitution--I think the public is skeptical since they don't see a reduction in the insurgency. People have the feeling we're caught in a morass. What...
...coming in from abroad, compiling the extraordinary narratives into some of the stories you see in this issue, while assistant photo editor Cristina Scalet directed the team of photographers who shot the 18 "heroes" profiled in these pages. Graphics director Jackson Dykman assembled a four-page gatefold on the burden of disease around the world. And associate art director Janet Michaud worked her magic to fit the editorial jig-saw puzzle into a compelling visual package...