Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expenditures. But then, how could Congressmen vote down a bill containing all those pork-barrel projects so dear to their hearts? If Hayden's Arizona rider stayed on the bill, the Congress could be caught up in a ruckus that might last until Christmas. Most people would probably blame Aspinall...
While smokers get hooked by their habit in more ways than one, the blame cannot be put on manufacturers; they sell at a standard price, which has increased only 7¾% since 1958. Even federal, state and local taxes, which account for more than 60% of the price of cigarettes in some areas, are not responsible for the local price variations. The rub really lies with the retailers...
Analyzing the government failure, some experts throw up their hands and argue you can't please everyone. They blame the impasse on the British. Colonial administrators, they contend, designed African states for their own convenience, disregarding economic and racial factors. Then the British cut colonial ties and let their fledglings sink...
...Lean On. And God? Pike firmly rejects the idea of a personal deity who answers prayers or somehow serves as an answer to the mysteries of life. "There is no way that the 'God' whom we could alternately lean on and blame can be made credible again." Nonetheless, the bishop suggests that man's "awareness of the amount of order there is, and of beauty, of joy and love" points to an "ultimate Reality" that is "in the realm of the empirical." Much in the manner of Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, Pike seems to regard...
...Napoleon's France and the Germanys of Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf Hitler had upset the power balances of the past, Stalin's push into the vacuum after 1945 precipitated years of struggle to restore the balance. As Halle sees it, the Allies largely had themselves to blame. "It would have been better in the two World Wars," he writes, "if the restoration of a balance of power had been the victors' conscious and proclaimed objective. They would then, one supposes, have seen that it was essential to avoid the complete destruction of the defeated enemy...