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Sounds good. But probe the surface, and acid bubbles up. A top Democratic leadership aide on Bush: "The onus is on him to end the partisanship. He's been saying for months and months, 'I'm gonna make things better in Washington. I'm going to unify.' Fine. That's great. But he's got some proving to do." A Republican member of Congress on Gore: "He wants to fight everyone and everything." New eras of warm cooperation have a way of dissolving into cold, familiar warfare, and even good intentions and fond hopes can't always prevent...
...appeal of separation for Israelis is that they could pull their soldiers back to more defensible positions in the West Bank, avoiding the friction points on the edges of Palestinian towns where their troops now face off against rioters. They would also give up enough land to put the onus on Arafat to make his new state work, instead of blaming Israel for its problems...
...undeniable human contribution to and causation of global warming. The panel, (which issued two prior assessments in 1995 and 1990), made a dramatic shift from their earlier, more conservative stance as a result of five years of intensive research compiled by teams around the world. This report placed the onus for the trend squarely upon the shoulders of a society whose reckless burning of fossil fuels has altered the earth's atmosphere and contributed substantially to the observed warming over the last 50 years...
...weather is getting colder. On Saturday, as the icy winds in Hanover, N.H., gusted to 25 mph, Harvard's passing game was slowed, not by anything that Dartmouth did on defense, but by the weather. The inclement conditions put the onus on the ground game to perform...
This system would ensure that third-party candidates have a fair shot to express their views to the general public. It puts the onus on them to prove that they have the wide base of support that they often claim. And if the Republican and Democratic candidates prove to be the only ones with significant national support, then they will be the only ones on the stage for the last two debates...