Word: burdens
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...making sure that people have a trusted medical source they can turn to for information. One of the reasons we work so hard on community control measures is not that you can stop the flu from spreading eventually, but if you slow it down, it can reduce the burden on your health care system at any one time. And that is something that will be a problem whenever we face a major crisis, and should this virus come back strongly in the fall it would be an issue...
...Laying off Harvard’s workers is unjust because they should not have to bear the heaviest burden of a crisis that they did not create. Layoffs devastate people’s lives and families, contributing to the economic crisis because people without jobs can no longer afford to pay for basic needs. The onus that we face is finding a way to make these unjust cuts unnecessary ones by seeking out other means of meeting Harvard’s new budgetary demands...
...questions from members of the Student Labor Action Movement raised concerns that staff would bear the brunt of budget cuts in the form of mass layoffs, but both Smith and Hammonds rejected the notion that the upper echelons at Harvard were not shouldering a fair part of the burden...
...defeat spread from its seniors to the rest of the team. Stack-Babich and Matt Rogers combined for 17 homers in their final seasons, while Taylor Meehan and captain Harry Douglas each hit well above .300 and provided some pop of their own. The powerful senior bats eased the burden on an inexperienced pitching staff, allowing some promising rookies to develop their stuff—in particular starters Brent Suter and Conner Hulse. The two young hurlers had their struggles, but by the end of the season both looked prepared to be rotation mainstays in the future. This...
...school internally is not really public service,” says Muhamed H. Almaliky, a Student Government member.But others cite financial factors as the primary driver.“Students were almost being forced, I think, to go into the private sector because they had such a debt burden when they graduated,” says Douglas A. Levine, who graduated from HKS in 2008.Ellwood has focused extensively on increasing financial aid for HKS students, which he said in a February interview had doubled from an annual total of $11 million when his tenure began in 2004 to a projected...