Word: burdens
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...archive provides a snapshot of the financial burden that comes with final club membership...
...some extent, we place the burden of configuring lists on the people who are creating the list, with the implicit understanding that we will help people with whatever they need help with,” said Gline, who is also a Crimson columnist...
...witness an increase in allocated student space, it is doubtful that these bastions of snobbery would disappear. As long as people want to get in, final clubs will maintain their air of exclusivity and, therefore, their perceived place atop Harvard’s social hierarchy. The burden of erasing this unfounded distinction and undermining this skewed power dynamic rests with Harvard students—only if we stop treating the clubs as prestigious, stop eagerly waiting outside their doors, and stop anxiously punching, will the clubs cease to dominate the College’s social landscape...
Since 9/11, the Coast Guard has been given a heavy new burden of antiterrorism responsibilities--like protecting refineries, shipyards and bridges at the nation's 361 ports. When it was moved from the Department of Transportation to DHS in 2003, Coast Guard boosters like Senator Susan Collins of Maine made sure it retained all its functions. But, as with FEMA, there is always a risk that the new terrorism focus will detract from its traditional lifesaving role...
...ratified by the union membership, the retrenchment will hasten the end to company-subsidized health care for all retirees. From 1988 to 2004, the share of employers with 200 or more workers offering retiree health insurance plunged, from 66% to 36%. The end result: a fresh and additional burden on retirees. Concluded a report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Hewitt Associates: "For the majority of workers who retire before they turn age 65 and are eligible for Medicare, the coverage provided under employer plans is often difficult, if not impossible to find anywhere else." For retirees over 65, "employer...