Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's leaders are tough enough, we'll get a good incomes policy and a wage-price board. But I don't know if they've got guts enough to do that, and do it so that labor doesn't bear the brunt." Says David Grove: "Nobody believes that the 90-day freeze won't be extended in some way, probably by setting up a policing review board. That's the minimum Government apparatus that is needed." In dissent, Beryl Sprinkel says: "A wage-price review board won't work. There...
...Hindus, who account for three-fourths of the refugees and a majority of the dead, have borne the brunt of the Moslem military's hatred. Even now, Moslem soldiers in East Pakistan will snatch away a man's lungi (sarong) to see if he is circumcised, obligatory for Moslems; if he is not, it usually means death. Others are simply rounded up and shot. Commented one high U.S. official last week: "It is the most incredible, calculated thing since the days of the Nazis in Poland...
...defiant crowds of students and parents, and brought threats of mass teacher resignations. Black students were resentful when their schools were arbitrarily closed to keep the identity of white schools alive; they mounted protests in Athens and Atlanta. Black teachers found themselves downgraded, out of jobs, or bearing the brunt of white criticism over the quality of education...
...have been the backbone of the movement for years but who were so conspicuously absent from the march last weekend. If they choose to find excuses to stay away the action will be little more than symbolic. If they come to support the veterans who have carried the brunt of the action during the last two weeks, they really can stop the war machine...
...will not be enough. What occurred at Sanders Theatre cannot be excused. Those who took part in it must be punished with all the severity which the University has at its command. If everyone who participated cannot be accurately identified then those who organized the disruption should bear the brunt of retribution for the actions which they instigated. Those who are students should be asked to leave the community for the rights of whose members they no longer have any respect...