Word: onus
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...tuition. Texas had passed a law cutting off the state's share of the costs of educating such children. Some of the parents, although leery of drawing governmental attention to their unlawful presence, asked the federal courts to intervene. Last week, expressing skepticism about any law "directing the onus of a parent's misconduct against his children," the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that the Texas statute was unconstitutional...
...monstrous ICBMs have given them a nearly 3-to-l advantage over the U.S. in "throw weight"-the cumulative power to "throw" megatons of death and destruction at the other nation. That excessive throw weight on the Soviet side of the scales has upset the strategic balance. Therefore the onus is on the U.S.S.R. to make deeper cuts. In fact, in his Eureka speech, Reagan said he wants eventually to reduce both sides' missile throw weight to "less than current American levels...
...name of the prestige of Poland." John Paul's remarks were another papal prod to get the regime to come to terms with the Solidarity movement. But Warsaw is convinced that a papal return would be dangerous under current conditions. While the regime is eager to avoid the onus of canceling the papal visit, prospects for the trip seem dimmer than ever...
...successful vaccine would finally put an end to the age-old taint that lepers bear. Even today, patients, though treated and no longer contagious, carry the onus. "I feel ashamed," says Leni Ignosta, 20, a Los Angeles welder who contracted leprosy five years ago in Samoa before moving to the U.S. "I don't want anybody to know I have it, not even my family. I wanted to stay in the U.S., but I think I'll go back to Samoa and live by myself...
Tosteson said the BWH report places the onus both on the legal advice that the faculty members received [from hospital attorneys] and on the faculty members," Covino Gissen and Wark