Few stop to consider that corporate officers bear a legal fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to guard and build the corporations in which they have invested.

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We became a country that used its wealth to bear some moral responsibility for those among us that had it a bit tougher.

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To be sure, you assume myriad liabilities by directly acknowledging responsibility, yet an opportunity was nonetheless lost at the 30, 000-foot level to bear moral responsibility for the fiasco in a way that would not have legal impact.

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And I think participating in the government is a responsibility and it's a mutual commitment, and those who participate in this government need to bear responsibilities.

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Now, again, whether we have to do a better job making sure people understand that, we certainly bear that responsibility.

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Rotta lays a large part of the blame for the current state of Italy on Mr Berlusconi's shoulders, saying that he had to bear the responsibility for "having failed to reform the country and the market as he promised, at a time when it would have been less painful".

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Savor that: In her determination to rationalize away the uncongenial truth of Patton's observations, Bahadur has spun herself into a denial that women bear any responsibility for initiating a relationship and an insistence that Prince Charming simply appear on the scene.

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