There's enough foreboding in America right now to make sitting through a movie such as "The Road" seem like one more heavy burden that, frankly, no one needs.

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She also bore the heavy emotional burden that comes with that role because no one is more intimately in touch with the current and future health of the business than the person who signs the checks and sees the account balances on a regular basis.

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There can be no better metaphor for depression than Frodo walking through ashen heaps carrying a heavy burden on an apparently hopeless quest.

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This is no coincidence, for the Empire State has a tax burden that is notoriously heavy.

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