Word: burdens
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Much of the discussion was devoted to Sperling’s contention that the very wealthy would receive the direct benefit of the tax cuts and Hubbard’s rejoinder that the burden of taxation would be spread out to everyone in the long term no matter what the immediate distribution...
...percent of male respondents. Plenty of men are unaware of how their partner spent the morning after. Who is to blame when this happens? Is it her deception, or his indifference? The UHS waiting room is not a place to savor post-coital bliss. That she should shoulder the burden alone without his knowledge is a symptom of a community’s sexual dysfunctionality, part of a common cultural affliction that’s bad for people...
...said the government should bear the burden of fixing the system so as not disrupt the flow of foreign students in and out of the country...
...Though his concerns for student safety are legitimate, Illingworth’s means of achieving it are less than ideal. Boston maintains high safety standards for its clubs. If this blanket coverage doesn’t suffice for Illingworth, he should discriminate between clubs—not force the burden of proof on busy student planning committees. Events at venues that have a safe history of sponsoring Harvard groups are of low-risk to the University. Clubs new to Harvard—or clubs that held events resulting in minor injury, like Avalon this November—could easily...
...slipped past him on their way to a raucous celebration in West Berlin. Over the next few days, the revelers hammered away at the most notorious symbol of Soviet communist repression and toasted their newfound freedom with bottles of champagne. But joy was soon dampened by the daunting burden of rebuilding the backward East. More than a decade after Germany officially unified in 1990, the country is still suffering the hangover. --By Daniel Eisenberg