Word: overburden
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...Overburden. Getting money is a big problem, but not the biggest, for Gross. The city's board of education has no taxing power-probably an advantage, since it would otherwise have to persuade a presumably reluctant electorate to vote for higher taxes and bond issues. This means that the board must appeal for cash to the city's Democratic administration, which in turn depends on the state's Republican legislature for about one-third of its school funds, but New York does manage to scrape up more per pupil (an average of $625 last year) than...
...estimate, it should be spending at least one-third more to restore the schools' position of 20 years ago. The key barrier is "municipal overburden"-the expense of such extra city services as subsidized subways. Only 21% of the city budget goes to education, compared with as much as 70% in small communities...
Last year over 400 more students were accepted than in 1960, and a similar increase this year might seriously overburden some facilities, such as biology labs. Total enrollment has jumped from only 2877 in 1957 to a whopping 4122 in 1960 and 4555 in 1961. At present 5000 seems a reasonable limit in terms of size and quality of the student body...
...running a restaurant." says the New York City Ballet's Choreographer George Balanchine. "I have to serve a different dinner every night, and I can't overburden the kitchen. But once a year I want to give a banquet." Last week Balanchine served up the biggest banquet of his career to an audience that paid up to $100 a head. The occasion: the premiere of Balanchine's most ambitious ballet, A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...latest effort to understand animal travel tricks, the Office of Naval Research has been loading homing pigeons with tiny, transistorized radio transmitters designed by American Electronic Laboratories, Inc. of Philadelphia. Despite four batteries and a 40-in. trailing antenna, each transmitter weighs only 2½ oz. and does not overburden an airworthy pigeon. For 20 hours, it sends out a signal that can be picked up by directional receivers tracking the pigeon to its home loft...