Are we a nation that asks only the middle class and the poor to bear the burden?
In any case its the poor unskilled males that bear the loss the most as they do not have the financial assets to attract native or foreign women.
Individuals can be hit even harder than companies by bear markets and poor investment choices.
Keeping basic consumption cheap, and charging heavily only above a certain level, means that user-fees do not bear down on poor people.
Many poor mothers fear they would have to bear the expenses of their daughter's wedding including paying dowry.
Scotland will bear the brunt of the poor weather over the next few days, the Met Office has warned.
Poor management is another problem, although Italy's politicians must bear some of the blame in their choice of bosses and their reluctance to allow the radical restructuring that the airline has long needed.
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In my state of California, the Republican minority has gone to great lengths to insure the wealthy have their incomes protected while the poor, the young, those in school, and the most vulnerable members of society bear almost the entire burden.
Geithner is the guy whose judgment is so poor that in 2008, while serving as the New York Fed governor, he chose to save Bear Stearns and let another bank far more critical to the global economy, Lehman Brothers, go under.
While the conventional wisdom is that treatment for disease should be undertaken whenever possible (bear in mind that in the early days of AIDS treatment, not everyone supported treatment among the poor), it is clear that some of the best results come from preventive tactics.
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