Word: burdens
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...Michel ’77, a professor of medicine who leads the education advisory group, stressed that planning on his committee was “very much a work in progress,” but said the group was considering a broad range of issues—from debt burden to distance learning...
...Aswany relishes crafting a good yarn - he spends months sketching every detail of his characters' lives and personalities before weaving them into his narratives - he is also zealous about the artist's role as social critic. Rarely has that burden seemed more important in the Middle East, with Al Aswany serving as a relatively lonely advocate of liberalism caught in a struggle against an entrenched authoritarian regime on one hand and a rising, chauvinistic Islamist movement on the other. "This is a battle for democracy," he explains during one in a series of interviews with TIME. "Writing is part...
...process. The price of postage varies from state to state, and is even inconsistent within states. The postage required for an absentee ballot in Los Angles, for example, costs 41 cents, whereas in some counties in Florida, returning the ballot by mail costs $1.14. Voting officials place the burden of determining and correctly placing postage for these ballots on students who, living in an age when young people almost never visit the post office, may not even know the price of a stamp. Indeed, in talking to multiple fellow students this week, it is clear that many believe first-class...
...many of the Voter Instruction guides does it remind the voter to put on postage at all. Some ballots read, “If you are unsure of the postage cost, please check with your local office of the U.S. Postal Service,” but why should this burden be placed on the voter? While college students may be near post offices and therefore able to spend a few minutes figuring all this out, the same cannot necessarily be said about another large group of absentee voters—senior citizens —for whom trips...
...bargain or a burden? The nation certainly doesn't feel as if it's engaged in a major war. Nothing is rationed, there are relatively few casualties, and the entire burden of waging the conflict falls on the shoulders of the 1% of Americans that serve in the professional military...