Word: burden
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...produce radiation damage." At the time, it was estimated that a worker could be inhaling about 16 radioactive particles per month. This suggests that over a one-year period a worker could have inhaled an amount of plutonium that is more than twice the current official lifetime lung burden allowed for Energy Department workers, the Glenn report said...
...dubious, laundered cash amounts to an estimated $1 trillion or more each year. Often legitimately earned, this money has an endless variety of sources: an Argentine businessman who dodges currency-control laws to get his savings out of the country; a multinational corporation that seeks to "minimize" its tax burden by dumping its profits in tax-free havens; a South African investor who wants to avoid economic sanctions; an East German Communist leader who stashed a personal nest egg in Swiss bank accounts; or even the CIA and KGB when they need to finance espionage or covert activities overseas...
THESE leaders-in-exile are young (Liu Yan is 19), and the shock of what they have gone through has been exacerbated by their sudden departure from their homeland and subsequent adjustment to life in the United States. A great burden has been put on these people's shoulders: in addition to dealing with their own ghosts, they are being asked to speak for those who died. They are not permitted to grow beyond June 4, and yet they are looked to for dynamic, continuing leadership...
Wattleton wears the burden, though she would call it the honor, of being a role model. As a black woman, divorced mother and crusader for family planning, she feels the pressure of being held up as a symbol, and she is determined neither to let up nor to let anyone down...
Tackling the transformation of Willy Loman from a struggling, middle-aged no-name into a defeated, desperate old man, Larry O'Keefe is nothing short of fantastic. O'Keefe makes this already difficult role even riskier by assuming the burden of a believable New York accent, yet he succeeds brilliantly in portraying both the change of age and the evolution of psyche that constitute Willy Loman...