Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INADEQUATE INVESTMENT In the 25 years up to 1973, business spending on new plants added about 3% a year to the nation's capital base-plants and machines-but since then the total has risen only some 1.75% a year. Businessmen blame the drop on regulation, profit squeeze, high taxes on capital, and inflation, which saps the confidence that is necessary for investment...
...publishing the results, Ifju Kommunist placed a large part of the blame on both the school system and the news organs for their neglect of history and the humanities in general. But to some outside observers, the situation seemed to confirm another phrase from the prolific pen of Marx: "All great historic facts and personages recur twice-once as tragedy, and once as farce...
...those of us who believe Carter is a reasonable, honest, intelligent man, with or without the impressive fist clenching, his method was acceptable. To those earnest members of the blame-Carter-for-everything club, nothing he does is acceptable...
...destroy the popularity ratings of several liberal Senators, and it's working. Frank Church is screaming like a stuck pig, and I don't blame...
Judges share the blame for the courts' delay. In Pittsburgh, criminal judges have almost four times the caseload of those in The Bronx, but dispose of cases five times as fast. Why the difference? Because some judges take an active role in pushing a case along from the moment it is filed. They enforce strict deadlines on filing motions and papers and limit pretrial discovery; in short they stop lawyers from delaying. In other courts, judges sit back and let lawyers set the pace by handing out postponements freely...