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Under the previous ruling, a tie in the election of a team captain was broken by the manager. "It was a real onus on the manager. Someone was certain to see him as a stinker," Cutler said...
Landan claims that "much of the onus for the oppressive social and political atmosphere in the Soviet Union today must necessarily rest with Stalin's successors." Who then was responsible for crushing the Kronstadt revolt of 1921, where revolutionary sailors called for implementation of Lenin's own slogan of "All Power to the Soviets" and were massacred by troops sent by Lenin and commanded by Trotsky? Who shifted the practice of the Third International from prompting international revolution to defending the national interests of the Soviet government and attempting to change the course of other revolutionary movements by executive fiat...
Downstairs was no better. The slaphappy laughter and pink fuzzy slippers couldn't hide the real sorrow of the tiny group of girls huddled around their milk and cookies. Saturday night at Harvard is really very little different from any other night. It does not carry the onus of "date night." But at Radcliffe on Saturday night the dorm is depopulated and only a few remain. It may not be in fact, terribly sad, but it sure seems that...
...work program. We're taking this out of welfare." But not completely out of politics. One committee amendment will make the bill effective July 1, 1971, well past the congressional elections. The President to report to Congress on its effectiveness one year later. This will place the onus for soaring costs or lack of results squarely on Nixon, and right at the beginning of his 1972 campaign for reelection...
...cannot blame B.A.S.F. for this entirely. They have the blessings of our state's leaders, and the pollution they create will be within the limits permissible under our archaic and inadequate laws dealing with the subject. No, the onus belongs chiefly to the local politicians-in this case, Democrats all-who are so anxious to jump in bed with the Germans...