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Regarding American complaints that West Germany recently has been a reluctant ally: If there were any such complaints, they were totally unfounded and untenable. We in Europe bear the brunt of Western defense. From the very beginning, we have helped to initiate and to bear responsibility for all important decisions taken by the alliance...
Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, said yesterday the decision to bring in Daka Foods employees was motivated primarily by economic concerns. "Harkness has been running a large deficit, and the Law School has had to bear the brunt of it," he said...
...community invariably bears the brunt of such a closing. It loses retail sales, corporate income taxes, residents--in short, its vitality. A confusing tangle of redevelopment assistance from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Economic Development Administration, and other agencies frequently remains beyond reach for smaller cities, where the closings often have the greatest impact. Even when it is successfully administered, redevelopment assistance takes much longer than GM needs to pack up its assembly lines and head back to Detroit...
...dominant Shona, who make up about 80% of the black population. But Muzorewa was so discredited by his association with the whites and his failure to deliver on campaign promises that most of the Shonas voted for Mugabe. Another reason for his success: Mugabe's guerrillas did the brunt of the fighting that, in the eyes of most Africans, forced the whites to accept majority rule...
...need an ability to grab hold of tough problems and not delegate them. It's not fair to let the guy below you take the brunt of making the hard decisions. The leader has to get deeply, personally involved in challenging issues and set the policy...