Word: onus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the House moved to break the political impasse that has prevented any major military base in the U.S. from being decommissioned during the past eleven years. The bill, sponsored by Texas Republican Richard Armey, is designed to fend off angry finger-pointing from constituents by putting the onus on a nine-member bipartisan commission...
...region. Though the Revolutionary Guards' Boghammar speedboats continue to threaten neutral shipping in the crowded gulf, any attempt to confront U.S. warships patrolling in the area would be suicidal. And sponsorship of new terrorist bombings or kidnapings would only turn international public opinion against Iran, taking much of the onus...
...There is the onus that the guide is funded bythe faculty. That doesn't skew what we put in, butsometimes we have to be careful about what wesay," David said...
...only way for European countries to insulate themselves against that peril, TIME's economists agreed, is to boost domestic demand and become less reliant on exports. The onus will be on West Germany, Europe's most powerful economy, to take the initiative. Last year the Germans resisted pressure to cut interest rates and lift demand by promising that strong growth was already in the pipeline. Further stimulus, German officials argued, would raise the risk of an overheated economy and renewed inflation. But West Germany's 2.75% growth rate in 1986 fell short of expectations as the high-flying mark...
...currently fashionable to blame political ills on the media, a trend that threatens the First Amendment and wrongly shifts the onus from politicians to their chroniclers and frequent adversaries. However, Hillson is right in observing ruefully that the news media decides which candidates are viable and ignores the rest, behavior hardly consistent with democratic ideals...