Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chancellor spread the burden as "widely and thinly" as possible. Income tax will take 2.5% more of everybody's income after personal exemptions. There will also be higher sales and entertainment taxes, and a jump from 30% to 50% on distributed business profits. He rejected left-wing demands for a soak-the-rich capital levy. Biggest surprise of all, he defied his fiery cabinet colleague Aneurin Bevan by proposing that the public pay half the cost of false teeth and spectacles, hitherto free under the National Health Service...
...weekend that the Vassar girl may deviate from the activities pattern. For those who choose the conventional, planned activities path there are numerous cocktail parties, sponsored either by the individual houses or the class. Here again, in most cases, the girl will assume the financial burden. It is possible to spend an inexpensive weekend in Poughkeepsie, but not easy...
...example, new plants will turn out so much aluminum in 1953 that the military will be able to take 500,000 tons and still leave civilians about as much as they got before Korea. By 1953, a greatly expanded U.S. industrial plant should be able to carry the burden of war & peace production with comparative ease. By then, said Wilson, "we can probably begin to talk about taking off controls...
...Composed of 15-year (3½%) bonds and twelve-year capital appreciation bonds (similar to U.S. savings bonds) whose interest will add 50% to the value by maturity. Thus, Israel will not have the burden of heavy yearly cash interest payments...
Harvard's opposition to the educational legislation included the point that it "would put an intolerable burden on universities' admission offices," but Harvard's representative stressed his agreement with the principles of the bill...