Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff, while well-meaning, has adopted a tone that assumes that the brunt of child care ought to fall on women, with the exception of monetary support...
...very telling of the objectivist cult-following that it should regard the poor and the unsuccessful (who are the brunt of their joke) as failures. In objectivists' eyes, the poor fail willingly because all people have and have enjoyed equal opportunity, have entered this world with equal freedoms to flex equal minds. They believe that every wealthy and successful individual is so because of his or her "productivity," that the uncreative and less intelligent and less talented should suffer for their fruitlessness, and ultimately, that our civil society should feel no obligation to them...
...subsequent debate over what percentage of the council's budget to allocate as grants for student groups has, in turn, taken a personal tone. Hyman, who has rightly supported increasing such grants for established organizations with a following, has borne the brunt of Coffey's personalized criticism. This, too, is unnecessary. The council has more important matters to attend...
Bill Jaeger, director of HUCTW, said the brunt of budget cutting should not fall on workers like Malin...
...control entitlements Bill Clinton has so successfully campaigned on, would mean that by 2002, there would be no room in the federal budget for any domestic spending at all--even The Crimson's precious jobs bill--without a huge tax increase. And who would bear the brunt of that? The very students who today read The Crimson. Maybe the Crimson editorial writers should look at how much more they'll pay in taxes before writing their next ill-founded liberal apologia. --William M. Jay '98 Parliamentarian, Harvard Republican Club