Word: burden
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...squeeze on credit was a major burden on business all year long. Companies began avoiding new debt financing through the long-term bond market because high rates made that too expensive. Instead, they turned to banks for short-term loans that would not lock them into high rates for ten years or more. Industries that depend heavily on credit, particularly home building and auto sales, have been staggering. Lone Star Industries, the country's largest cement producer, last week took out full-page newspaper ads featuring a large skull and crossbones and the warning POISON...
Sean did not really know or understand about the Beatles, or what his father was to the world. But Sean will surely know, soon enough, that his father did not have to die to become part of everything. Given the special burden and grace of his great gift, he already was. Not just for his wife or son but for more people than anyone could ever begin to number, the killing of John Lennon was a death in the family...
Although no longer the factory for the industrial world, the United States still carries the largest share of the burden for sparking global development. Muller attributes the stagflation that has mired national growth rates in a steady through to a vicious cricle of inflation and low productivity and likens the American scenario to the sputtering economies of less-developed countries. To combat what he calls this "Latin Americization" of the United States, he proposes concerted political efforts to both stimulate world-wide demand for American products and national consensus for greater efficiency and equity at home. Although he doesn...
...problem is the high cost of airfares. In the past 18 months, the price of a tourist-class round-trip ticket between Honolulu and San Francisco, some 2,400 miles away, has soared 75%, to $504. The remoteness that had always been Hawaii's allure is now its burden. Laments Edward Sullivan, managing director of the Hyatt
...seven stories in this volume sometimes share titles (two are called Lost Letters, two The Angels). They all revolve around a small set of preoccupations: the burden of the past and the limits of the healing power of laughter. Time is measured back and forth from the year 1968, when the growing freedom of the Czech people, the fabled Prague Spring, was crushed by the Soviets: "Russian tanks invaded Bohemia." Recent history was revised downward, and those who had been prominent in pushing reforms (including Kundera) found themselves officially erased into nonpersons. Observes one character: "The only reason people want...