Word: burdens
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...live with the situation where a lot of unemployed people hover in a market where nobody sees them or does anything for them. We've also carried out the biggest tax reform in modern German history, returning 350 billion to consumers. If you look at the average tax burden in Germany, it's one of the lowest in the E.U. The economic environment is changing faster than ever. I think we have to be constantly on the edge to not fall behind...
...using them with unwise abandon. "No one's expecting a chemotherapeutic agent or a liver drug to be perfect for everyone, but because pain is so prevalent, we're all in search of that magic drug that works for everyone all the time. It's such an unrealistic burden to place on a drug...
Students battling the ever-increasing financial burden that is a Harvard education have found a new adversary this term: the $500 coursepack. While that sets in, it must be emphasized that this is not some premise for a Harvard-themed Twilight Zone episode or a cheesy horror movie à la Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. The $464.50 compendium of readings and articles for Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert Putnam’s Government 90qa, Community in America class is very real and currently available on the shelves of the Harvard Coop bookstore...
...that you may sleep at night unhindered by the burden of this deeply haunting matter, I will now lay to rest an age old question: The correct name for a polygon with 77 sides is a heptacontakaiheptagon. How in the olden days of 1992 a troubled geometer might have discovered this fact is a mystery to me—as is how someone of that era might have been able to find out who the namesake was for Ninendo video-game icon “Mario” (it’s Mario Segali, landlord of the company?...
...should be demanded of them, observes Jennifer Loh, a math teacher at Ursuline Academy in Dallas. "It's their way of saying to Mom and Dad, 'I'm not perfect.'" Though the best teachers work hard to inspire even the most alienated kids, they can't carry the full burden of the parents' expectations. In his dreams, admits Daddow, the Iowa history teacher, what he would like to say is "Your son or daughter is very, very lazy." Instead, he shows the parents the student's work and says, "I'm not sure I'm getting Jim's best effort...