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...Maloney said that the new plan, which measures fees in units of 100 cubic feet of water and effectively grants discounts to minor consumers, "shifts the onus to large user ships" like city universities and factory complexes...
...cost to American taxpayers will be relatively small ($15 billion or less if Japan, Germany and others honor their pledges of financial support). That Saddam Hussein should have been so cartoon-villainous (and incompetent as a military leader). That his soldiers should have committed atrocities that took the moral onus off the carnage that the coalition left in the desert...
...Republicans have felt philosophically for a long time that state and local governments should take on the onus of all these problems because they're closer to the people," Cavanaugh said. But Cavanaugh argues once again that state and local governments do not have the financial resources to deal with these problems alone...
...Iraqi leaders and private citizens put additional pressure on Saddam to comply with the more limited Security Council demands. The achievement of immediate American goals cannot be guaranteed by such a pause in the war. Even rejection of the peace effort by the Iraqis, however, will put the onus of the continuing conflict on their leaders, giving the allied forces a significant propaganda victory. It will also help clarify our ultimate objectives, to ourselves and to the world. Involving others in negotiations will make it easier for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the region once the conflict is resolved...
...running to hundreds of millions of dollars. Some of these inequities could be fine-tuned out of the plan later, but the fact remains that, after weeks of heated negotiations, the bipartisan summiteers who put the deal together were unable to find another approach that was politically feasible. The onus is on those who criticize their work to show exactly how they would do a better job of reducing the deficit without resorting to the phony figures and rosy forecasts they're accustomed to using...