Word: overburden
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...concerned about anything that is going to overburden the infrastructure," Leslie says. "A lot of traffic will want to come through Cambridge...
Many Americans are confused about whether the continuous inflow of immigrants makes the country stronger or weaker. Economic studies abound claiming that immigration spurs new businesses and new taxpayers. With no less conviction, others contend that immigrants and their children evade taxes and overburden local welfare, health and education systems. To compound the confusion, many Americans believe -- wrongly -- that more foreigners enter the country illegally than do legally. As the doubts grow, so does the potential for backlash. Polls show that almost two-thirds of Americans favor new laws to cut back on all immigrants and asylum seekers -- legal...
Departments must provide career advice not through a mentor system, but through small advisory committees. And departments should make committee appointments equitably, taking care not to overburden the few female faculty members with too many administrative responsibilities...
...education into a national soap opera, "Graduates in Debt." A report released last week by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee warns that while student borrowing under federal programs has tripled in the last decade, federal grants and scholarships have decreased by 62 percent. This, the report says, threatens to overburden a generation of college graduates...
...husband to a mother's jealousy of a nanny's close relationship with her child. Bunge tells students, "You are a resource person like an accountant or an attorney. You have to present your information in a subtle way." Yet most schools teach some assertiveness training. "Families tend to overburden nannies," says Larry Uno, of the California Nannie College in Sacramento. "We teach them...