Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government may not be able to withstand the growing political pressures. One ominous possibility for the future is a military coup. Until recently, most people remained confident that the armed forces would stay out of politics, mainly because taking power would require the armed forces to shoulder the blame for the economic austerity that surely lies ahead. Yet if there are further threats of upheaval, the military, with its long tradition of interference in political affairs, might feel obliged to step...
...blame, says Coleman, lies largely in the forced massive busing of students in big cities. When confronted with the possibility that their children will have to go to school with large numbers of blacks, many middle-class white families move to the suburbs or head for private schools. Says Coleman: "Busing has subjected middle-class white parents to things that they don't want -the possibility of lower reading levels and greater discipline problems in their children's classrooms...
...will only settle for Prince Charles. (She will not, because the Prince of Wales cannot marry a Roman Catholic.) Just now, Caroline is studying at Paris' elite Institut d'Etudes Politiques, and she is strictly chaperoned by Grace. "Take one look at the girl. Can you blame her?" asks a sympathetic friend. Caroline fairly smolders whenever she gets the chance, earning admiring appraisals from Parisians or revealing almost total décolletage at a disco...
...parties involved hold each other responsible for the crisis. Some doctors blame the increasing incidence of malpractice suits on patients' desire for a fast buck at the expense of physicians. Others lay the responsibility for the rise on ambulance-chasing lawyers, who have been forced out of automobile liability actions by the growing acceptance of no-fault insurance...
...reports of miracle drugs and surgical spectaculars like heart transplants. People also enjoy the television programs that show Marcus Welby and his colleagues regularly triumphing over death and disease. Since they now expect more from doctors, they are less willing to accept bad results and far more willing to blame them on a physician's failure. "People do not understand that everything is not going to result in a perfect outcome every time," says the A.M.A.'s executive vice president Dr. James Sammons. "We've fallen into the trap of being incredulous when a perfect result doesn...