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...open turf wars. Lower down the ranks, the endemic overstretch expresses itself in a stark statistic: according to Britain's Ministry of Defence, 1 in 5 troops is unfit for frontline duty, often as a result of injury or psychological damage. Officials from France and the U.K. have discussed burden-sharing, including the possibility of joint nuclear-submarine patrols, and a Feb. 3 Green Paper recommended Britain's cash-strapped military seek "greater cooperation" with the French. That didn't go down so well everywhere. "The pride of our forces has finally been surrendered with our leaders admitting...
...divisions combined. (Debt-ridden Portsmouth, one of two Premier League teams not included in UEFA's sums, in February became the top flight's first franchise to fall into bankruptcy.) The leveraged buyouts by American investors of top clubs Manchester United and Liverpool, meanwhile, were "acting principally as a burden" on those clubs, UEFA added in the recent report, "rather than to support investment or spending." That's because the new owners piled the debts incurred in buying the clubs onto the teams' own finances, limiting the cash available for buying new players and therefore the clubs' ability to compete...
Palin emphasized what she characterized as the unfair taxation burden the average American family currently faces due to government spending...
Much of this burden will fall on the shoulders of freshman setter Rob Lothman, who has been having success as of late, averaging 50.3 assists per match over the past three contests...
...which case, should Harvard and its peers be doing more to ease the burden? Sebastián’s department recently told him they would cover some of his summer, but next year, when he plans to finish his degree, he might leave the lab entirely. He says he can’t compete with the students who come in refreshed at 10 in the morning and stay until midnight. And providing for Mariana means jumping from one 12-month post-doc to the next—a common route to a faculty spot—is likewise worrisome...