Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More to the point, both Clinton and the First Lady are adamantly opposed to a settlement. Both feel that they have already borne the brunt of the bad publicity. As lawyers looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the case, they also expect to win. In a case that essentially boils down to Clinton's word against Jones', the burden of proof is upon Jones. Much will also depend on whether she can convince the jury that she suffered setbacks in her job as a state government clerk because she rebuffed Clinton or that his attentions to her created...
Often the first person in the building, Brian has frequently bore the brunt of Lampoon pranks...
...their special fate. Countless minors continue to purchase alcohol unobstructed. Granted, the example of others may serve as a deterrent, but there are far more just ways of enforcing the law. If the CPD wishes to crack down on the illegal purchase of alcohol, they should focus the brunt of their efforts on the adult proprietors of the 32 liquor stores, not errant 15-year-olds looking to buy some beer. If the CPD makes it clear to local stores that violation of the law will not be tolerated, they will have greater incentive to closely inspect...
...Children are bearing the brunt of the current economic hardship," said Philippe Heffinick, UNICEF's Baghdad representative. Unfortunately, the malnourished children are also becoming a bargaining counter and propoganda tool for Saddam Hussein. Iraqi television is dominated by images of women wailing over the bodies of eight children apparently starved to death at a Baghdad hospital...
That Spencer, like his famous sister, would find romantic relationships especially unmanageable comes as little surprise given their home lives as children. As the younger siblings, Diana and Charles Spencer bore the brunt of their parents' breakup. In 1967 their mother Frances left the family to be with her lover, wallpaper heir Peter Shand Kydd. The two later married and eventually moved to a farm on the tiny Isle of Seil in western Scotland. Spencer won custody of his daughters and son. (Mrs. Shand Kydd, who recently converted to Catholicism, continues to live there today; her husband left...