Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economically feasible for most of the group's members. In 1977 OPEC nations were pumping at a rate of 31.3 million bbl. a day. Now production has dropped to only about 14 million bbl., and in spite of that the market remains squishy. Saudi Arabia has taken the brunt of the cutbacks. Its production is currently only 3.3 million bbl. a day, roughly a third of its rate of 9.6 million bbl. a day in 1981. The keepers of the kingdom's finances are unwilling to go lower, or even remain this low for much longer...
...public dialogue up to this point has suggested that Black colleges will carry the brunt of the new NCAA regulations. The representatives of Black colleges and universities are right to object to the adoption of these rules because the implementation of these rules will assure that they cannot participate in NCAA competition in a meaningful way. Their exclusion, however, may have been incidental to those whose objective it was to reduce Black athletic participation in athletics generally, but most specifically at predominantly white colleges and universities. Meldon Hellis...
...this election, Texas was a district unto itself. With unemployment at 8.3%, higher than in Frost Belt states like Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Texans were feeling the brunt of a national economic downturn for the first time in more than two decades. Democrats came out in droves to help Populist Attorney General Mark White ambush Republican Governor Bill Clements. White roused the voters not only over the economy but also with the somewhat spurious charge that the Governor should be held accountable for high utility rates. The Texas G.O.P. took a "shellacking," said the defeated Clements...
...Kuprevich and another member of the university administration have gone out of their way to make sure Mr. Black gets the brunt of the work and the least credit," Nikolyszyn added...
...Cambridge Rent Control Board, which administers the regulations on rents and evictions in the city's tight housing market, has been the brunt of complaints by tenants, landlords, and city officials. According to the mayor's commission's report, the rent board currently has a backlog of more than 300 cases, and half of the cases take more than four months to process...