Word: blame
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Cautiously, Dr. Schroeder pointed out that he was not simplistically laying all the blame for high blood pressure and atherosclerosis on cadmium and chromium. Other exotic elements such as vanadium, zirconium and niobium, all "abundant in the human body," influence the level of fats in the blood...
Though Volpe managed to get the General Court to pass a sales tax, providing the Commonwealth with much needed additional revenue, the tax measure is virtually his only legislative achievement for the last two years. And the blame for this record cannot be placed on a contumacious legislature; Volpe had few proposals to present...
Russell Harlan's color photography is dreadful--the blues and greens are hopelessly washed out--and for this I suspect we can again blame Mr. Hill, since Harlan has done superb work on other films, most notably Hawks' Rio Bravo. Hill's inability to fill the screen with anything attractive, let alone relevant, is Hawaii's coup de grace. Movies have survived mediocre scripts, but Hawaii is as cinematic as a fly preserved in amber, and that's the kiss of death...
...blame must fall on Mrs. Bunting. By breaking a promise with one-quarter of Radcliffe's population and ignoring the possible hardship she has caused them, she has acted irresponsibly and perhaps dishonestly...
...diplomats abroad who converse with foreigners seem less than enthusiastic about the Cultural Revolution, privately blame the excesses of the Red Guards for bringing Peking a bad press throughout the world. Publicly they keep a discreet silence. After all, just by living abroad the diplomats have made themselves logical targets for the xenophobic Red Guards when-and if -they return home...