Word: burdens
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...spouse left behind often faces an anguished choice: work more, to help ease the financial burden, or less, to help ease the emotional one. Barry Esteves has been in Afghanistan with the National Guard military police for three months, but in West Boylston, Mass., his daughter Melanie, 8, told her mother, "It feels like Daddy died." Mindy Esteves decided to leave the beauty salon where she had worked for 14 years, and she found a job at which she could put in fewer hours on a more flexible schedule...
...only part of the burden of handling many early applications is monetary—the early process requires a faster turn-around. If feeling rushed, however, the admissions office can simply defer truly borderline students and reconsider them in the regular process. And the less restrictive policy gives these borderline students the chance of getting in early at another school...
Harvard’s burden on that front is greater than that of some other teams left in the championship hunt. Cal is the only team to enjoy varsity status and all of the attendant benefits conferred by that status...
Harvard’s burden on that front is greater than that of some other teams left in the championship hunt. Cal is the only team to enjoy varsity status and all of the attendant benefits conferred by that status...
...Wearing the ‘C’ is a tough thing to do,” Kolarik said. “It’s a burden as much as it’s an honor, so just having some ‘A’s, having guys with some letters, can take a lot of pressure off Kenny. It backs him up and allows him to be a little more flexible and focus on his own play...