Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South African police are in principle against the formation of vigilante groups," says a police spokesman. But, he adds, "we have no problem with any group prepared to help the police within the confines of the law." Conservative black, colored and Indian businessmen and politicians, who have borne the brunt of the rage expressed by the young people leading the protest activities in the townships, insist that they need the vigilantes because the police fail to provide adequate protection. The possibility thus exists that while the government conveniently looks the other way, continued clashes between the groups could grow into...
...deal a severe blow to South Africa's nonwhites. Those whom American firms directly employ will of course lose their jobs. More important, American disinvestment would check the growth of the South African economy. South Africa's nonwhites, half of whom are already underemployed or unemployed, would feel the brunt of economic stagnation most profoundly. Without a growth rate of at least five percent a year, Black unemployment will continue to rise, and with it the misery of the Black community. As Sanford J. Ungar and Peter Vale, the latter a professor at South Africa's Rhodes University, argued...
Throughout the year. Harvard has had to rely on White and her 2.85 goals-against average (.885 save percentage) to compensate for occasional defensive lapses and to keep the team in games by bearing the brunt of swarming enemy offenses. Consequently, White has had plenty of tough 2-1 and 3-1 losses, and many near-shutouts spoiled in the closing minutes...
...greater risk. In some rural areas, if a single man walks a single woman to her door, the stroll is equivalent to a declaration of marriage. The misreading of a relationship by neighbors or an accusation can bring social ruin. As in most other countries, the woman bears the brunt of the blame for sexual misconduct, though that may slowly be changing. One weekly managed to be both antisex and antisexist when it wrote that "virginity education should be carried out with females and males at the same time. A girl and a boy who have illegal sex should both...
...killer rains claimed lives elsewhere in Puerto Rico's south, which bore the brunt of their fury. Flooding creeks and a collapsed wall caused 13 deaths in the El Tuque section of Ponce, and near...