Word: burdens
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...before oil revenue can be used for the good of the Iraq people it will be necessary to remove the demands already encumbering it. The biggest factor: a crushing debt burden. Putting an exact figure on Iraqi debt is a matter of contention. For instance, Iraq considers $55 billion given to it by the Gulf States during the 1980's as grants, while the givers consider them loans. However, an average of the most generally accepted figures puts Iraqi commercial and official debt at $116 billion and claims for war reparations at a bit over $200 billion. Some estimates...
...Harvard right the ship? Play like the did yesterday. And the burden may lie with the newbies. The infield must be more sure-handed. The starters must keep their fastballs down in the strike zone. The bottom of the order must be more consistent offensively...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts starts to take sexual assault service funding seriously. The University should spearhead a consortium of Boston area schools to hire several full-time SANE nurses for the city’s higher education community. Besides benefiting students, the action would help take some of the burden off the already-understaffed statewide program. With area colleges and universities each contributing a portion of the funding, colleges can then make sure that rape kits can be performed at many campus health services and eliminate the burden on students to travel to off-campus emergency rooms...
Behind the plate, the absence of Monica Montijo ’03-’04 puts the catching burden squarely on the shoulders of two underslassmen...
Similar to the Babe himself, Whitton’s numbers offensively leapt through the roof once relieved of the burden of excelling in two dimensions of the game...