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...been talked to death for the past 20 years, but there is now a significant change in the political landscape that makes an imminent solution possible: not the ever rising numbers of uninsured Americans, now estimated at 47 million, but corporate America's impatience with the back-breaking financial burden of providing health insurance for its employees. Health care adds $1,500 to the price of every new American car, for instance. "I've had auto executives say to me, ?We're health-care companies that happen to make cars,'" says Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. As it happens, Wyden...
...packed audience of wealthy expatriates, bankers and journalists - as well as other domestic workers - looked on, Thelma and her fellow thespians grappled with the burden of their sacrifice. In previous lives, many were schoolteachers, beauty contestants and union organizers, but now they toil around the clock, rushing after spoiled kids and reckoning with deadbeat husbands. An estimated one-third of the Filipinas working as domestic servants in Hong Kong are university graduates. "What good has that done me?" demands one cast member. "I am just scrubbing toilets...
...Amnesty won't necessarily add to the social-services burden...
...Jeremy R. Knowles was said to work 18 hours a day during his ten years as FAS dean—one of the most demanding positions at Harvard because of the relative lack of high-level officials that share the burden of decision-making...
...committed myself to being engaged and deliberate, but not “busy.” Hopefully this slight change of wording will enable me to spend more time thinking about why I’m doing what I’m doing, while shedding the burden of stress that being busy brings...