Word: burdens
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...nationwide to curtail the growth of the prison-industrial complex. Curbing mass incarceration would certainly curry favor with black voters, and it wouldn’t even have to be cast as an explicitly racial issue. The unchecked growth of the penal system should be construed as a fiscal burden and ineffective crime deterrent. What should help Democrats convey this message is that it is actually true—but after watching Kerry get punked about his tour in Vietnam by a guy who couldn’t even show up for National Guard duty, who really knows...
Council President Matthew W. Mahan said the Dean’s office at Yale stepped in to shoulder the burden after YCC refused to offset the $9,400 tailgates expenditure...
...first term: get more international help, accelerate the training of an Iraqi security force to take over, jump-start reconstruction and hold fair, credible elections in January. Washington officials sum it up as "Iraqification," the process of getting the U.S. out by shifting the political and security burden to locals. But as just about everyone who knows Iraq warns, that could take years, if it works at all. If Bush intends to see the job through, as he insists, he needs to do two things quickly: make a realistic appraisal of the current situation and put in place contingency plans...
...button issues against critics who may accuse him of gratuitously sensationalizing his book. He says that no dialogue about Lincoln’s friendships is complete without Joshua Speed, whom Lincoln met in 1837 and with whom he shared everything from burlesque anecdotes to marriage ambitions to the burden of the seceding South...
...stress of the presidency can be a heavy burden for one man to bear alone. Like Sen. John Kerry, Lincoln was accused of vacillation because he seemed to frequently contradict himself. Donald claims Lincoln created confusion because he would actually test different arguments on different audiences, which could possibly have been curtailed had he had a trusted adviser...