Word: onus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While diversity and better race relations are worthwhile goals, we support a center that would primarily provide support services for Third World students," Georgia Hill '81, a member of the organization's steering committee, said last night, adding. "We don't think the onus of race relations should rest entirely with...
...most assessments, Brezhnev's speech was a shrewd blend of propaganda, gamesmanship and tantalizing concessions. The Soviet President and party chief appeared to have given a bit here, stonewalled a bit there, and cast his remarks in conciliatory terms that skillfully placed the onus of response on the West. "We had expected him to be statesmanlike and cautious," said a Kremlin watcher in London, "but he went even further-both in what he said and what he didn't say. Wherever he could, he avoided the abrasive issues in Soviet-American relations. He was consciously turning the other...
Involving Hussein is important not only because of his potential ability to serve as a surrogate for West Bank Palestinians. It is also important that the Arab-Israeli peace process take on a more multinational cast, thus easing the onus on Egypt's Anwar Sadat as the odd man out in the Arab world. Sadat's isolation makes him politically vulnerable both to internal enemies, like Muslim fundamentalists, and to external foes, like the irrepressible Gaddafi. Sadat's troubles are economic as well as political; he would be in a better position to deliver his long-promised...
...recent years Brezhnev has gained enough authority and prestige to put his portrait and quotations on propaganda posters all across the U.S.S.R. Yet so far he has avoided responsibility for chronic failures of the economy and agriculture. That onus he thrust upon other comrades, particularly his longtime partner Alexei Kosygin, who died in late December, less than two months after his resignation as Premier. Now more than ever, the gerontocratic leadership of the U.S.S.R. is dominated by Brezhnev appointees and protégés, with neither an obvious heir nor a challenger in their midst...
...reached maximum solar and coal capacity, she had no choice but to play the purple petroleum cards on the board. Schmidt grimly pronounced, "Contratulations, you have just tripled the country's dependence on foreign oil." As he relished the indictment, the other hosts hurriedly switched to remove the petroleum onus...