Word: brunt
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...SEEMS ODD that Yale's administration has not upped its offer to the striking clerical and technical workers there a cent since the two-month old strike began. The Yale corporation faces great and growing pressure from the thousands of faculty and students who bear that brunt of the strike but are nonetheless without a voice in settling the dispute. The union's case has received wide-spread coverage in the media, and the case they've made is a very strong one. Yet despite' forceful criticisms, Yale seems intent on starting down the public outrage...
Saudi Arabia, OPEC's biggest producer, took the brunt of the group's 1.5 million bbl.-per-day cutback. The Saudis agreed to reduce their output limit by 647,000 bbl. a day, to 4.4 million bbl. More important, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the Saudi Oil Minister, promised to trim production even further, if necessary, to hold the line on prices. Other OPEC members, except Nigeria and Iraq, grudgingly accepted reductions of about 9% each. Two non-OPEC oil producers, Egypt and Mexico, whose petroleum ministers attended some of last week's sessions as observers, promised...
...fashion shows. "They would say Cardin had presented 250 outfits, so I'd draw 350. Then I could say I did more than Cardin. After that I'd write my own articles about my collection, which were very positive." His grandmother-"my first fashion influence"-endured the brunt of his bolder experiments, which once included dyeing her gray hair purple. "She may," he laughs, "have been the first punk...
...casts his vote with Jermaine, Tito, Marlon, Randy and Jackie. This is not a soul-brother Partridge Family: the Jacksons are generously gifted all round. But it is clear to everyone, especially the fans, that Michael is the main attraction. As a result, Michael inevitably took the brunt of the considerable grievances being voiced about the tour...
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has a more recent reason for personal bitterness toward the U.S. As Moscow's chief international spokesman, he took the brunt of worldwide opprobrium after the Soviet Union shot down a Korean airliner late last summer; when he was due in New York for a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, local politicians refused to let him land at the area's commercial airports and Washington told him he would have to fly into a military field. Deeply offended, Gromyko called off the trip. Washington analysts believe he raised his increasingly influential voice in favor...