Word: onus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handled by nonscheduled lines). His pressure on the big operators to adopt new safety measures had cost them money. This week, after he was out, came a safety report which might cost them more. Over Chairman Landis' signature, the President's Air Safety Board put the onus of safety on the airlines, recommended that each employ a full-time safety director, proposed methods to "promote efficiency and safety'' among flight and ground crews...
Paired with the poll resolution was another that reaffirmed the policy which last weekend brought into effect a long-standing rule excluding women from the cheering section. The Council removed any onus for the policy from the H.A.A., and proposed to set up a special staff of ushers to cheels on "overt and patent abuses in the student seating area...
Molotov had hurried to Paris with an 89-man staff (including five bodyguards), which had been assembled overnight with Stakhanovite speed. At first, it looked as though Molotov intended to play along with the American plan for a while, and later try to shift the onus of a possible failure on to the U.S. How that might happen was explained by one diplomat in Paris: "Ice cream would have a better chance of surviving in hell than a big credit plan which includes the Russians would have in the U.S. Congress...
...Secretary of State George C. Marshall told the four-power council of Foreign Ministers that no German government should be saddled with the onus of signing the treaty, but that the German people should agree in their national constitution to accept the terms of the pact...
...range the close financial surveillance that Congress has maintained over the TVA, a control that was loosened only by the needs of wartime security. With this same devotion to realities, Senator Taft has seized on the appropriations for Oak Ridge and other top secret plants, and has placed the onus of secrecy on David Lilienthal. If this was secretive "power-hungry" bureaucracy, the Senator himself urged it on the country, calling it "national security...