Word: blame
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...journalists are not as cynical as ' they are often given blame - or credit - for being, they are nonetheless among the least surprised and most prepared of people for the possibilities of both disaster and triumph in human affairs. That, after all, is their business. As TIME'S editors saw it, last week's flight of the Apollo astronauts overshadowed -even if, in the long view of history, it did not cancel out - many of the most compelling events of the year. In just 147 hours, it transformed the pioneers of lunar space into the men whom history...
Effective at Mystifying. To a large degree, De Gaulle has only himself to blame. In June's national elections, French voters gave Gaullists the first absolute majority granted any French party in the National Assembly in nearly a century. However, as former Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing last week put it, "The results of the elections did not show an expression of confidence but a need for confidence." De Gaulle, now 78, has of late seemed to lose his ability to provide the forceful leadership France requires. "In the country of Louis XIV, to be governed means...
...flows as smoothly as any contrived 18th century novel of manners. Whoever was right, whatever their pangs and posturings, the Ruskins emerge as vivid and graceful correspondents. If no book like this ever celebrates the famous domestic wrangles of the present day for future readers, part of the blame must be placed on the telephone...
Swiss bankers admit that numbered accounts have been exploited, but they put most of the blame on the 100 or so foreign-owned banks in their country and only a handful of small, Swiss-owned institutions. They insist that, contrary to legend, the biggest banks do not cater to South American dictators or Mafia magnates. Moreover, the overwhelming majority of the thousands of numbered accounts belong to Europeans rather than Americans...
...author evaluates the Krupp responsibility for encouraging Hitler and triggering World War II. As early as 1920, Gustav had put his most talented armorers secretly to work on the weapons that ultimately were used in 1939. But it was Gustav's lonely, introspective son, Alfried, who bears most blame. He joined the Nazi Party and the SS while still a student in 1931, and took over from his senescent father in 1943. During the war, he showed no qualms about confiscating plants in occupied lands, impressing 100,000 slave laborers and opening production plants near concentration camps to have...