Word: blame
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This week my uncle was murdered, needlessly, senselessly and brutally, trying to protect his wife and his possessions. It is my honest belief that he was murdered by a gun because he had a gun. I do not blame him for wanting to protect himself, although I am opposed to all ownership of handguns. I do blame his killer for doing what he did. And I blame the Congress for permitting a glut of handguns to create the conditions that forced my uncle to purchase a gun. Must we all arm ourselves in an attempt to deal with each other...
Salamites and his five teen-age companions, all bewildered, were examined and let go; they obviously had meant the President no harm. Hartford police manfully assumed the blame for not having a cop at the intersection, as they had said they would, but the responsibility for the disorganized motorcade belonged to the Secret Service. It was the agents' duty to make sure that the intersections were blocked off, no matter what the local police promised, and to see that the escorting cruisers flashed their warning lights and did not significantly outdistance Ford's limousine. (The Secret Service rarely...
...ENEMY. Never mind all those smooth-talking partisans of "men's liberation" joyously chanting "Oppressors, arise and recognize your own oppression!," fresh from their discovery that men as well as women suffer from rigid sexual stereotyping. No use trying to pin the blame on some anonymous entity called "the system" which makes both sexes squirm unhappily--not even if the system turns to be none other than that ogre capitalism. After all, Marxist theory may say one thing, but in practice socialist countries still uphold the nuclear family and discriminate against women. Every man--socialist or capitalist--is a sexist...
Much of the blame for bureaucratic slackness rests with the public-service unions whose rigid rules impair productivity. It takes yards of red tape and constant bickering to shift anyone to another department or category. Only by sweetening fringe benefits three years ago could the city persuade the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association to allow more men to be put on the streets during the high-crime shift from 4 p.m. to midnight...
Donald C. Moulton, assistant vice president for community affairs, shifted the blame to the city. Cambridge's engineers were present and approved the work, he said...