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...whom I've seen pictures -- before and after four years -- the man who sits behind the desk in the Oval Office in times more trying than any others in history has not sprouted an additional grey hair or developed a new wrinkle. Johnson, at least, looked as if the onus he bore fatigued him, and at the end of his five years, he looked as if it had been twenty...
...than the Pentagon was willing to admit. Arthur Okun, then a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, recalls glancing skeptically over one set of military-cost estimates marked "For internal consumption only" and penciling in the margin, "but not to be swallowed." Nevertheless, fearing the political onus of a war tax, Johnson held off seeking it until...
Restic readily admits the defensive backfield is too small and too slow to stop a decent passer. Cornell has a good passer and a good runner who should continue to score at least 20 points against the Crimson. The onus is then on the offense, and Restic's system does have the potential to cut loose. However, Harvard's attack lacks the consistency to produce week after week. Given a vulnerable defensive secondary, a few good opposing quarterbacks, and the law of averages, that may well mean a 5-4 season...
...making their offer (and even drawing a map, which they had always insisted they would do only after face-to-face negotiations), the Israelis had neatly put the onus of response back on Sadat. The offer was far from meeting his stated demand that Egypt must regain sovereignty over all of its territory before a peace agreement can be concluded, and it was questionable whether Sadat could even negotiate on the basis of Israel's proposal and survive in power. But by making the proposal, the Israeli government had probably gone about as far as it could without seriously...
...John Robinson, formerly the Anglican Bishop of Woolrich. The age of consent in sexual relations, he said, should be lowered from 16 to 14. The change, the bishop argued, would make teen-agers more rather than less responsible for their actions, and it would facilitate counseling by removing the onus of criminality. Robinson seemed unperturbed by the fuss over his speech. As the author of the controversial 1963 book Honest to God, he has been through it all before. "I was raising the point," he explained in a letter to the Times of London, "how most effectively do we protect...