"If you can alleviate a financial burden off these young kids where they can concentrate on rebuilding their lives, you can really make a difference, " he said.

CNN: Building free homes for wounded vets

Some provisions attempt to improve efficiency through administrative reforms, by, for example, requiring insurance companies to create a single standardized form for insurance reimbursement, to alleviate the clerical burden on clinicians.

NEWYORKER: Testing, Testing

The World Conference on Human Rights calls upon the international community to make all efforts to help alleviate the external debt burden of developing countries, in order to supplement the efforts of the Governments of such countries to attain the full realization of the economic, social and cultural rights of their people.

UNESCO: Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

This was done to alleviate the country's debt burden and to encourage investments in the real economy.

BBC: Brazil economy loses ground again

But while the latter might redistribute the burden of higher inflation, it will do nothing to alleviate the underlying inflationary pressures.

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