Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the increase of mass education and from open-admissions programs-although to argue against ever widening opportunity of education is to confront one of the most cherished goals of the American ideal. In any case, teachers all along the line must play a frantic kind of catchup. Colleges blame high school teachers for sending them students who cannot read or write properly; high school teachers blame the schools below; and, with reason, nearly everybody blames the families from which the children come...
...home. But as Secretary Butz repeatedly demonstrates by dramatically peeling three slices off an 18-slice loaf of bread, the farmers' income from selling wheat accounts for only one-sixth of the supermarket price of bread. Rising costs of labor, transportation, distribution and packaging are more to blame for high food costs than are any sales abroad...
...last week, that "there's nothing evil about exporting food" and the U.S. needs the income derived from such sales to pay for the large amount of oil it imports. He may have been correct, too, in claiming that neither Soviet purchases nor U.S. farmers can properly be blamed if food prices continue to rise in American supermarkets. What is even more certain, however, is that nothing is quite so maddening to most Americans as the rising cost of eating. If food prices soar, they are going to seek someone to blame...
...kind of screw-up could happen. I could make a million dollars--for being a consultant. The closest thing I can come to explaining it is the fear factor--the idea that people in television are scared because there's so much money involved. Nobody wants to take the blame and so they have this kind of group decision-making where they all sit around a table and then somebody will say 'How about--?" and then nobody will say no, and there it is. And there was a lot of publicity about this, so they were publicly embarrassed...
...there were reports from South Africa that Portugal would begin a massive two-month airlift to rescue the white settlers. This, however, would not end the problems the settlers could pose for the triumvirate. Relocated in Portugal, they would probably make up an embittered and impoverished bloc that would blame the regime for not doing more to protect Portuguese interests in Africa...