Word: brunt
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...discount the seven guards' complaints is to charge them all with being conspiratorial liars out to destroy the reputations of Donald P. Behenna (a security supervisor) and Robert J. Dowling (manager of operations for security and Behenna's boss and friend), who bear the brunt of the charges. But the University has admitted that Behenna underwent "retraining" of an unspecified nature shortly after this paper reported the complaints against him. Regardless of whether or not these specific charges are true, they deserve a fuller hearing...
Even as they denounced the violence, Bonn officials used the occasion to urge once more the adoption of a constitutional amendment that would curtail Germany's liberal provisions for asylum. Germany continues to bear the brunt of Europe's population upheaval, taking in 256,000 asylum seekers last year -- a number that may double this year. But Kohl's Christian Democrats could soon get their wish. Leaders of the rival Social Democrats, whose support is essential for such an amendment, coincidentally abandoned their opposition only hours before the Rostock riots began...
...rounds of talks that ended with mutual accusations of intransigence. "The other side refuses to accept anything we are proposing," said Klaus, who has the support of Havel, the country's first postcommunist President. Part of the problem is that Slovaks believe their economically depressed republic bears the brunt of Klaus' radical proposals for privatization and austerity. But several thousand Czechs signed petitions in Prague calling for an independent Czech republic, complaining that Slovaks were backward-looking and even dangerous. Where does the dispute leave Havel? He warned of a "permanent political and constitutional crisis" and suggested that he will...
This type of discrimination will conservatives note, only increase the resentment of those whites who think they might be passed up for a job by a less-qualified member of a minority group. In fact, because affirmative action increases white resentment of minorities, the brunt of its negative effects fall upon...minorities...
...hands full," said Crimson goalie Chris Miller. "They had the ball in our end for most of the game," Miller continued. Miller's solid play in net prevented a rout. Facing the brunt of Brown's 39 shots, Miller came up with 20 saves...