Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cancer death statistics are collected. Others believe it is an indirect result of a drop in the mortality rate from heart disease, leaving more people susceptible to death from cancer. Whatever the cause of the sudden rise, lung cancer must take a large share of the blame. The American Cancer Society reports that lung cancer next year will kill an estimated 65,200 men and 18,600 women-2,800 more victims than this year. Ironically, unlike many other forms of the disease, lung cancer is largely preventable. At least 80% of the cases appear to be the direct result...
Greyhound officials contacted by the Crimson yesterday said that HSA was to blame for the snafu. "HSA made an error in their charter order. We just follow the order." Greyhound Regional Manager Charles W. Lohman said yesterday...
...positions in the administration could depend on or confide in one another. From the moment Nixon realized that Watergate was going to be something more than "a little problem," (or as John Dean said, "hot stuff"), the scapegoat mentality took over. Somebody was going to have to take the blame, and everyone was busy "protecting his own flanks...
Concerned that the Kremlin might interpret Schlesinger's firing as a sign the U.S. would make new concessions for the sake of a new SALT agreement, Kissinger went out of his way to blame the Soviet Union for the current deadlock in the talks. "We are still expecting some sort of reasoned response to our last proposal," said the Secretary. "We are prepared to look for an honorable compromise. But it is up to the Soviet Union to be also prepared to make a compromise." Asked if he himself planned to last out the Ford Administration, he said, "Well...
...meeting will test "the capability of free democratic governments to demonstrate that they are workable in an interdependent world." On the other hand, Europe abounds in cynics who view the summit as an empty show staged by leaders anxious to demonstrate that they are doing something and thus escape blame for failing to manage their own economies successfully...