Word: blame
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...really fair to say that the dearth of women professors here is the result of a conscious act of villainy. Still, it's relatively easy to pin blame when you're talking about the academic level of sexism. It's when you get to the social level that things really begin to get sticky. Virtually everyone at Harvard is "conscious" about sexism or, if they aren't when they get here, they soon learn. A woman from a small Southern town who gets here freshman year and tells everyone she wants to be a housewife and mother soon discovers what...
...about nil. Equal access, like the Radcliffe bitch myth, is an instance of Harvard's subtle sexism surfacing--and again, surfacing in a way that is ambiguous enough so that many women don't see anything sexist about it at all. As usual, there's no one specific to blame, and everyone means well and sincerely believes that they're doing the best they...
...networks are far from complete, progress in general has been slow, and seismologists blame inadequate Government funding. The USGS's annual quake budget has remained at about $11 million for the past few years, only about $3 million of it for research in the art of forecasting...
...role, Brookings Institution Economist Arthur Okun cites such "self-inflicted wounds" as the Soviet grain sales and the coming abrupt decontrol of oil prices at the end of this month. Monetarists argue that the Federal Reserve's moderately easy money policy earlier this year is partly to blame...
...people officially listed as living in poverty were cut almost in half. For the first time, a majority of blacks (judging by income, occupation and education) were in the middle class. Wattenberg concluded that people are really much better off than they think they are, and laid the blame for widespread discontent on an increasing "psychology of entitlement" (college education for the kids, a satisfying job for oneself). So if-despite electric dishwashers to replace poorly paid domestics, and second cars and second homes for millions-people are still dissatisfied, the answer is that history records no instance...