Word: burdens
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...against law-breaking corporations, reasoning that big fines only injure innocent shareholders. Christopher Cox, the new SEC chairman, is expected to lean the same direction. Meanwhile, even in the halls of congress there has been concern that the tough Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform bill has placed too great a burden?and expense?on companies working to tow the line. Cox has already said he?s going to give small companies some relief from Sarbanes-Oxley by extending for one year the deadline for coming into compliance. It could be that the recent string of decades-long prison sentences for white...
With the absences of junior Matt Hoff and sophomore Mike Fucito—who combined for 20 points for the Crimson last season—Altchek will have to bear more of the burden. This weekend, he proved he is up to the challenge of sparking the Harvard offensive unit...
...balance a defense looking for 10 shutouts this season, the offensive burden will fall squarely on the shoulders of a mix of experienced returning players and rotating freshman...
...posters and brochures she had printed up at the beginning of her campaign, Mohammadi is worried about how she will pay for the next batch. She estimates that she has already spent at least $2,000, more than six times her monthly salary as a midwife. The financial burden?which she has covered in part by selling all of her gold jewelry, aside from her wedding ring?will only increase as the poll nears. The election commission grants each candidate airtime at local radio stations?a female candidate's best bet for getting her name out?but production...
...Bush (although when she did, he talked to her soothingly, according to White House officials). "His inner circle takes pride in being able to tell him 'everything is under control,' when in this case it was not," said a former aide. "The whole idea that you have to only burden him with things 'that rise to his level' bit them this time...