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Word: brunt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students has reached the point where those who pay to attend the University as well as those paid to teach here are looking for ways to reduce the financial pressure on students. Attention quickly focuses on endowment. If it is so large, many wonder, why must students bear the brunt of inflation and why must Harvard raise $250 million in its five-year campaign? The answer harkens back to Cabot's "striking-a-balance" philosophy...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: A Prudent Investor | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Parents with children in Cambridge's open and alternative schools appeared before the Cambridge School Committee last week to demand that their children's schools not bear the brunt of proposed teacher cuts necessitated by Proposition 21/2...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alternative Schools | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

That sort of unbending self-reliance, when applied to monetarism at the expense of political considerations, has caused deep anxiety among many Tory M.P.s, who have to suffer the brunt of their constituents' discontent over unemployment, bankruptcies and shuttered businesses. Indeed, there is already speculation about Thatcher's political survival if economic conditions show no signs of improvement by next year. Labor M.P. Phillip Whitehead cites a British political rule of thumb: "The Labor Party always talks about getting rid of its leaders, but never does. The Tory Party never talks about getting rid of theirs?but does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Embattled but Unbowed | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...story" into congressional investigations of Hollywood in the 1950s, would certainly have been a victim of the McCarthy era blacklists. His liberal credentials as a former editor of The New York Times and author of Kennedy Justice place him squarely in the "effete," "pinko" intellectual establishment that bore the brunt of McCarthy's character assassinations. Navasky knows this, and there is a bitter urgency about his reexamination of the '50s, whether he is writing persuasively in Naming Names or speaking quickly In a hotel bar. Here is a man who wants to prevent history from repeating itself, both for himself...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: On Naming and Framing | 11/1/1980 | See Source »

...true enough that Harvard students will not bear the brunt of Reagan's conservative program, just as it is also true that people from the socioeconomic background of most Harvard students might have much to gain from a Republican presidency. But budgets are already being slashed--it was Jimmy Carter who ignored Kennedy's calls for a massive employment program. And Carter represents at best a holding action; even where he is better than Reagan, he is not nearly good enough. Any man who defends denying Medicare funds for abortions because "life is unfair" cannot be fairly accused of more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Voting For What You Believe In | 10/23/1980 | See Source »

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