Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK CITY in 1971 there were 18 convictions for rape. Perhaps as many as 10,000 New York women were sexually abused that year in the most violent, degrading manner conceivable, and yet only 18 men could be found guilty. How could this happen? Superficially the blame lies with legal statutes (recently changed) which demanded "conclusive" corroborating evidence. But the true answer--fantastically complex, multi-faceted--can be found in Susan Brownmiller's portentous examination of rape, Against Our Will...
Trying to assign the blame in the New York bankruptcy is as much fun and as much use as deciding why the Roman Empire fell. Washington politicians tend to the sin-and-decadence theory, New Yorkers to the barbarian hypothesis. Let the historians decide. In the meantime--between, that is, now and December 1--city, state and federal officials should get busy making sure that the coming default does not set off financial panic or throw the country back into another recession. Everyone in New York, from Chase Manhattan to rookie sanitation men must be prepared to make some sacrifices...
...rally, organized by the Cambridgeport Homeowners and Tenants Association (CHTA) and the Russo Tenants Union, accused city manager James L. Sullivan with misleading homeowners about where to place the blame for the heavy property tax burden, Wayne Klug, one of the tenant union members said...
...page report issued by the Labor Department, and a later preliminary state audit investigation, pinned the blame for the IBES's bad performance mostly on poor management. The findings read like a horror story in bland bureaucratic prose: employees confused about their responsibilities and shifted from job to job so frequently that they never learned their jobs; a near absence of planning; managers unaware of how many staffers they could hire; offices that were unclean and unsafe; chronic shortages of supplies; employees "indulging in frequent coffee breaks, extended lunch periods and early departures." Worst of all, the state study...
Scapegoat hunters do not lack prey. They blame clerical advocates of the "new morality" and churches that have lost moral purpose; advocates of relativist philosophies; "anything goes" parents and children on drugs; the Supreme Court for having taken God and prayer out of the schools; the media for portraying and even touting vice and violence; Watergaters for shattering youth's idealism; those responsible for slums, where evil is bred. Fewer prepare themselves for personal ethical rebirth...