Word: onus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concerned with the guilt or innocence of their clients but with what "mistakes" the police or prosecution have made and what angles can be played to spring the guy-all in the name of constitutional rights. The result: not a trial to determine justice, but a game. No onus descends on Williams when he frees a guilty client for technical reasons; he gets praise, money and prestige for defeating justice. Isn't it time that lawyers, before admission to the bar, take a sort of Hippocratic oath that when clients admit their guilt to them, they will advise...
...change in the state's accounting system. Reagan has no such nest egg, and said he would need upwards of $240 million in new taxes just to stay even. Last week he even accused Brown of having "looted and drained" the state treasury, leaving his successor with the onus of levying new taxes. Reagan later explained that he had not implied any malfeasance on Brown's part, confessing that he was "addicted" to using the "simplest words...
...original aims could not be achieved intact. So it agreed to participate in a meeting at which all views on the war could be voiced, in the hope that SDS members would still get a chance to press Goldberg. For its part, the Institute managed to escape the onus of sponsoring a meeting which violates one of its original guidelines--but the Honorary Associate program remains unchanged in many of its essentials. Both sides have compromised, and both have done so without appearing to compromise their basic positions...
...about prices. High wage demands are certain, a tax increase a possibility. Corporate profits are expected to grow, but at the slowest rate since 1961. Johnson appealed to both labor and management to avoid a "disastrous" chain reaction of wage-price rises, while the CEA put most of the onus on business: "The public interest requires that producers absorb cost increases to the maximum extent feasible." At least 700 union contracts are up for negotiation this year; the outcome can only be guessed...
...cinema is changing. Unless audiences catch up, they will be left behind. The onus is not on the artist; he is merely the sensitive antenna. It is we who must learn to read...