Word: burdens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though President Bush pledged last January to send $3.5 billion to the state and local authorities who will bear the burden of responding to a terrorism emergency, the money was appropriated by Congress only last week. Interviews with dozens of homeland-security officials, from New York City to Long Beach, Calif., reveal that while local authorities around the country are more aware of the potential for terrorist strikes, they lack the resources to upgrade defenses against them. Hospitals say they can't train enough employees to effectively spot and treat victims of biological attacks; fire departments can't afford...
...push the burden of inflating the economy onto the central bank not only underestimates Hayami's efforts but overestimates the options available to his successor. The deflation busters insist that the BOJ can jump-start growth by encouraging more investing and spending. But a central banker has a relatively small number of imprecise tools at his command, and the current governor has exhausted virtually all of them. Over the past five years, Hayami has consistently kept interest rates at nearly zero in a desperate bid to get people spending. Money in Japan is practically free for anyone who wants...
...think it can be a burden,” Stone said of Botterill’s record. “She’s an incredibly selfless player, but when everyone else around you is reminding you of those things, it takes the focus off of team, and she’s all about team...
...America faced immediate and very critical health problems, notably the epidemic of obesity among the young. "It's every bit as threatening as the terrorist threat," he said, adding it would lead to a level of disease and chronic illness that would confront the country with a crushing economic burden...
...compelling enough to outweigh the benefits of toppling the dictatorship. Anyone using these arguments to reach a morally serious conclusion has to compare the potential difficulties of an invasion to the very real costs of allowing a brutal tyrant to continue unimpeded. Those who ignore the ponderous moral burden entailed by their position are no better than the appeaseniks whose timidity and fear brought ruin to so much of Europe, Asia and North Africa 60 years...