No better than to hear it directly from the man at the top, and one who leads a team at Penn that, like a few other institutions, are leading the way to greater access and affordability to provide kids a great education at a fair price, without the onerous burden of thousands of dollars in student loans.

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Appearing on CNN's "Evans and Novak, " the Missouri Republican said the American people "gave us the majority expecting us to relieve some of this onerous tax burden".

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Super Bowl champions the New England Patriots have yet to play their first game in the brand-new CMGI Field--and now they never will, because Gillette (nyse: G - news - people ) just stepped in to relieve troubled CMGI (nasdaq: CMGI - news - people ) of the onerous financial burden of paying the Patriots for the naming rights.

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So Walker turned to the onerous and mushrooming burden of accommodating public-sector pensions and other costs and played chicken with the unions.

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The resulting tax burden is onerous and could be many times the actual interest received on loans purchased.

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The burden of establishing the existence and extent of a loss are quite onerous on the taxpayer.

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Will onerous taxes and dispensing of largesse oscillate under successive administrations as parties pick constituencies to burden or bribe?

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