Word: burdens
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...drive to overclassify inmates is also an economic burden on the entire Massachusetts population. Placing a prisoner in a cell block just one security level higher than he deserves costs the state an additional $15,000 annually. According to the Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, who obtained their raw data from a report commissioned by the Department of Corrections itself, approximately 5,000 inmates are currently being overclassified by at least one level. By this estimate, which is a conservative one, the state wastes $75 million every year on this problem. Senate Bill 1311, by making it easier to overclassify inmates...
...last year's films were directed by women. "A female has never won Best Director at the Oscars," notes Salma Hayek, who produced and starred in the biopic Frida and chose Julie Taymor to direct it. "I think people are threatened by us." It's just another burden in making women's films...
...might be to make the last semester a different sort of time altogether. Instead of halfheartedly attending courses while suffering from the symptoms of PTSD (Post-Thesis Stress Disorder), seniors could make better use of their last semester to reap the opportunities of the course catalog without the narrowing burden of requirements. By carving out the spring as a time for seniors to carry out an independent project, or finish their theses, or participate in seminars or pursue reading projects with professors, the final semester would become a culmination of a four-year education, a natural extension of coursework done...
...confront the injustice of the HEA drug provision. These efforts must continue. We citizens must not become as complacent as our politicians, whether in regard to this particular law, drug policy, or national issues in general; the essence of democracy is at stake. In such times, when the burden to do what is right falls upon the people because their representatives have failed, knowledgeable citizens have a duty to inform others...
...losses, insurers will again head for the exits. Just such insurer flight has already caused problems in North Carolina's Outer Banks and in parts of New York's fabled Hamptons, where coastal storms are eating up homes and businesses. When insurance companies quit these high-risk places, the burden shifts to banks. But they don't have the same freedom simply to cancel mortgages and loans. What will happen to the markets if banks start demanding insurance for weather-related events that is either prohibitively expensive or completely unavailable...