Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...making decisions that would have an impact on this entire company. I never remember a period of relaxation when I wasn't concerned with some element of business. I do believe we ask more of an individual than we should when we ask him to bear the brunt of these decisions for an extended period of time. Ten years is long enough for a chairman or president." He feels able to leave now, Townsend said, because Chrysler's outlook is brightening, and the company should make a profit by the fourth quarter...
...would not disclose when Shelepin's Aeroflot jet would arrive or where he would go. Worried that the Soviet labor leader might be attacked or even assassinated, security agents later dispatched a stand-in resembling the short, heavy-set Russian in a decoy Daimler limousine. He took the brunt of a barrage of umbrellas, milk cartons, bricks and Passover cookies, as the real Shelepin slipped into T.U.C. headquarters through the tradesmen's entrance...
...certainly appears that way. While Harvard up against Milligan (4-2, 5-1), the diamondmen (8-1, 5-3, 11-3, 6-0). The brief interlude with Flagler and Embry Riddle was not much of a problem (6-4, 6-5), and it was Niagara that took the full brunt of the Crimson bats...
Burriss Young, acting dean of freshmen, said yesterday that Holworthy and Grays Halls will probably bear the brunt of the overcrowding, with a couple of other suites in the Yard taking extra people...
Better Mileage. In contrast to the President's proposal, the Democrats were planning to have gasoline bear the brunt of the price increases. The cost of gasoline could go up more, they reasoned, because more than half of it is consumed in the pursuit of pleasure and not in the line of work. The Senate was considering a penny-a-gallon tax that would gradually increase to 100 per gal. as unemployment declined. The House task force was devising a gasoline tax that would be partly rebated at the end of the month for "necessary" driving...