What about Detroit's onerous health care and pension obligations?
(Those terms of engagement and the power over pricing were onerous enough to draw the attention of the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission.
But teachers' unions complain that the current tests, which are meant to measure progress against the new national curriculum introduced last year, are onerous to deliver, and distract attention away from other subjects such as music, PE and art.
Mr. Bedell said that the purchase would relieve him of onerous and time-consuming day-to-day attention to managerial details that had distracted him from his first love, vineyard and cellar work.
The idea was to "reframe the debate" -- shift attention away from the reasons the insurers were being sued -- onerous policies and cheating doctors out of payments -- and toward those trial lawyers who were getting filthy rich filing "frivolous" lawsuits.
Policymakers should build on the bipartisan path that brought about Medicare reform and continue to work to alleviate onerous regulatory burdens that add costs, offer little or no value and divert attention from patient care.
Isn't it time to pay attention to what's happening to small businesses in the U.S.? Instead of doling out more entitlements and onerous regulations?
Nothing particularly onerous there.
That attention helped shake the album loose, although in a handful of recent interviews Lupe Fiasco has made the process sound onerous.
