Word: onus
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...everyone is convinced. Leonard Guarente, a specialist on aging from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, observes that "telomeres seem to be important in getting cells to divide in vitro, but the onus is to show that short telomeres affect aging in vivo. I don't think we know that yet." --By Clare Thompson...
According to Lori E. Rifkin '00, who lives inQuincy House, the onus of creating community,whether that be an artsy Adams House or moreathletic Mather House, has shifted onto thestudents...
Ultimately, the onus is on the newcomer to make a place for herself or himself. Many of us are trying. But Latinos cannot just keep our eyes on the prize; we have to look down inward to our thirst for a political voice, around at the desert of the current political landscape, and across color lines to those in majority and African-American communities who can help end the drought...
...onus was therefore on junior quarterback Rich Linden, who had struggled mightily through four and one-half games, to pilot an offense deprived of its major threat...
...ended by putting the onus back on us, asking us to "turn away from the spectacle," "repair the fabric of our national discourse," "return our attention to all the challenges and all the promise of the next American century"--a series of thinly veiled imperatives, the scolding teacher again blaming us for having shown an interest in scandal, as if we had fueled the investigation. As if without us or Ken Starr, there would have been no problem...