Word: brunt
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Congress may slash $12.7 billion from student loan funding as part of a budget cut facing a final vote in the House on Feb. 1, sparking protests from advocacy groups who say that college students and their parents should not have to bear the brunt of budget reform...
...crime daily on pain of death. Robin Oakapple (Benjamin T. Morris ’09), the rightful baronet is hiding, presumed dead, and thus free to shyly woo young Rose Maybud (Caitlin C. Vincent ’07) in a small town, while his younger brother bears the brunt of the curse. That is, until his adopted brother Richard Dauntless (Pedro K. Kaawaloa, Jr. ’06), a much bolder sailor who is prone to having audible conversations with his heart, comes along and steals the pliable Rose...
...that the media has chosen to ignore the plight of the cities who bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina, and focus our nation's attention only on New Orleans. At Katrina's true "ground zero" are three small cities that have been nearly wiped off the map by this storm-Waveland, Bay St. Louis, and Pass Christian, Miss. How unfortunate that although the overall devastation here far exceeds that of New Orleans, media coverage of these small towns with low crime rates and peaceful communities is not considered newsworthy-or "sensational" enough-for the media to discuss...
...common thread between the two campaigns is the loss of an Ivy Player of the Year, a playmaking guard who bore the brunt of the scoring load for the Quakers the year before. Michael Jordan led his 1999-00 Penn squad to a perfect 14-0 Ivy season, pouring in 16 points a game and dishing out five assists per contest. Tim Begley meant much the same to the 2004-05 Quakers team, contributing 14 points, five assists and five boards per game en route to a 13-1 league mark...
...think the statistics bear out that the traditionally under-represented and -served—including youth—bear the brunt of the Drug War,” Swerdlow wrote. “Not only in terms of the time they spend behind bars—anywhere from one to five to ten to twenty to fifty years—but the life-long consequences that come with a conviction on a marijuana charge...