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...Kuprevich and another member of the university administration have gone out of their way to make sure Mr. Black gets the brunt of the work and the least credit," Nikolyszyn added...
...Cambridge Rent Control Board, which administers the regulations on rents and evictions in the city's tight housing market, has been the brunt of complaints by tenants, landlords, and city officials. According to the mayor's commission's report, the rent board currently has a backlog of more than 300 cases, and half of the cases take more than four months to process...
...Pacific coastline to Chile a century ago; and above all, democratic Venezuela, which claims about half of neighboring Guyana's territory. In an interview with TIME'S Caribbean bureau chief William McWhirter, Venezuelan President Luis Herrera Campins warned that the U.S. "would have to bear the brunt of all the feelings of anticolonialism now rising across Latin America" as a result of U.S. support for Britain in the Falklands war. Said Herrera Campins: "The U.S. has probably never taken a greater risk in its international relations. We never thought that the U.S. would take an active part...
Through the various efforts included in the five-year conservation program, the Faculty is trying to escape the brunt of what Lichten projects to be a certain 8 to 10-percent yearly escalation in the cost of energy units...
...been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried. "So it is with the political doctrine that develops in Will's book Reagan rhetoric declares that government is the root at our woes and that government, as distinct from the people, must bear the brunt of the sacrifice necessary to restore this nation to prosperity, the populace need not suffer along the route to revival Will, however, disagrees...