Word: onus
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...immune from prosecution while in office - and numerous members of the Knesset, Israeli's legislative branch, warned Katsav to stay away from the body's first winter session on Monday, although opening the session has been a tradition for the largely ceremonial office of the presidency. "The onus is on you to spare the Israeli public and yourself from the embarrassment," said Knesset member Amira Dotan. Katsav took the advice and stayed away...
...Social Security is on wobbly ground. Those two onetime pillars of retirement finance used to give many retirees enough secure monthly income to cover most of their critical living expenses. But now we have 401(k)s, IRAs and other tax-favored savings accounts, with nothing guaranteed. The onus is on you to manage distributions in a way that you will not run out of money...
...college before getting a degree—the six-year graduation rate at UMass-Amherst is 62 percent for students who enrolled in 1998. The number decreases at other UMass campuses, with UMass-Dartmouth at 50 percent and UMass-Boston at 28 percent. However, Long added, the onus is also on families to plan ahead for their children’s education so that they are not faced with loans and are, in some cases, forced to drop out. “Families need to take advantage of saving options such as 529 plans,” Long said. Bowles...
...they choke off the flow of cheap imports into the U.S. The increase in the cost of living far outweighs the gains made by keeping uncompetitive businesses afloat. In other words, though a seamstress may have lost her job to China, everybody’s getting cheaper clothes. The onus is on policymakers to help the seamstress make a seamless transitions to a competitively sustainable job. Unfortunately, the gains of free trade are enjoyed by the masses and go relatively unnoticed, while the losses fall on a concentrated, vocal few. Though the needs and concerns of those who are being...
...makes college so valuable in the first place is the opportunity that it affords students to define their own academic paths and devote their efforts to the pursuit of true interests. Accountability, then, should be stressed not only on an institutional level, but also on an individual one; the onus ultimately falls on the students themselves to make their college learning experience a meaningful...