Word: brunt
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...perhaps you will be like the millions of American families who struggle desperately to balance job, family, marriage and sanity. In most of these families, overworked women bear the brunt of the misery. But according to extensive research by sociologist Arlie Hochschild, the strain of the two-career family hurts men and children as well. It breaks up marriages, undermines careers and, perhaps most tragically, makes children feel unwanted...
Murphy also called for stiff tax hikes to help close the state's rapidly increasing budget deficit, which currently stands at nearly $800 million. Members of the middle class have borne the brunt of the worsened economic conditions and "have a right to feel resentful," she said...
Harvard and MIT will feel the brunt of the protests, said Gurner...
Certainly Jews bore the largest and probably most well-publicized brunt of Nazi genocide, but there was no monopoly on the suffering. Nor should there be monopolies on the remembering--by Jews alone--or on the remembered--of Jews alone...
Offensive Player of the Week: Forward Matt Mallgrave. He didn't do anything particularly spectuacular last week, but neither did anyone else. All the freshman wing did was continue to skate himself silly bearing the brunt of the third line's forechecking and backchecking responsibilities...