Word: incurability
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...resident students incur significantly higher housing costs than residents. And if they are unwilling to continue to pay rent during the summer months or endure the time-consuming bother of finding a suitable tenant to sublet, they face the thoroughly unpleasant task of searching each fall for new housing in the severely overextended Cambridge rental market...
...tamperproof manner. Attorneys who are expert in product-liability law think that Johnson & Johnson will be able to convince the courts that it could not have been expected to anticipate and guard against the acts of a putative madman. But they add that the company is likely to incur expenses running into the millions in defending itself...
...Israelis also find themselves in a difficult dilemma. Their attempt to deal a military blow to the P.L.O. may not bring a political solution to the aspirations of 4 million Palestinians any closer. If Israel annihilates the battle-hardened veterans of the P.L.O. by storming Beirut, it will incur the wrath of Washington but fail to extinguish the spirit of Palestinian nationalism. Yet if the Israelis withdraw from Beirut and grant the P.L.O. a face-saving retreat, they will forfeit the psychological benefits of the crushing victory that their government wanted as the main justification for the invasion...
...million, and recovers about 20% to 30%, of which it may keep as much as 50%. Once Golditch has "captivated" his quarry, he proposes various forms of payment to his client-like a new credit-card loan, or a co-signed bank note. "I will never advise anyone to incur debt they can't handle," he says, "but I have a moral commitment to work out an equitable agreement...
...distinctions. Introducing the controversial conception of neutrality, Bok states that "there is a difference between the obligations of someone who has pushed an innocent child into the river and the responsibilities of the spectators who line the shore. By taking some positive action that inflicts harm on others, we incur duties that do not fall on the mere bystander [his emphasis]." The implication of this analogy is that Harvard has no complicity in apartheid by virtue of its stock portfolio. "Granted, universities have not caused apartheid in South Africa.... Granted, they will probably not make matters any worse by purchasing...