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...leaders must realize and begin to act on the fact that the interests of the U.S. and Israel are not always and automatically identical. Pretending that they are damages us throughout the world and, paradoxically, damages Israel even more, since it has to bear the brunt of the continued confrontation...
Despite the rising productivity of blue collar workers and the declining productivity of managers, as documented by MIT economist Lester Thurow, union members are being asked to bear the brunt of America's economic decline. Though many workers have risen to middle class stature and find the PATCO strike distasteful, the business-labor alliance may not last long at all. Washington's September 19 Solidarity Day is the first symbolic hint of these shifting winds...
...students has reached the point where those who pay to attend the University as well as those paid to teach here are looking for ways to reduce the financial pressure on students. Attention quickly focuses on endowment. If it is so large, many wonder, why must students bear the brunt of inflation and why must Harvard raise $250 million in its five-year campaign? The answer harkens back to Cabot's "striking-a-balance" philosophy...
Parents with children in Cambridge's open and alternative schools appeared before the Cambridge School Committee last week to demand that their children's schools not bear the brunt of proposed teacher cuts necessitated by Proposition 21/2...
That sort of unbending self-reliance, when applied to monetarism at the expense of political considerations, has caused deep anxiety among many Tory M.P.s, who have to suffer the brunt of their constituents' discontent over unemployment, bankruptcies and shuttered businesses. Indeed, there is already speculation about Thatcher's political survival if economic conditions show no signs of improvement by next year. Labor M.P. Phillip Whitehead cites a British political rule of thumb: "The Labor Party always talks about getting rid of its leaders, but never does. The Tory Party never talks about getting rid of theirs?but does...