Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next year. The Harris survey shows that more than half the public has already been hurt by work cutbacks; of those questioned, 30% said that they or a family member had been laid off, 9% had lost overtime and 13% had had their working hours reduced. Police blame unemployment for a recent jump in robberies and purse snatchings; many of the culprits who have been caught are jobless first-time offenders. Calling last week for more federal funds to create summer jobs for restless youth, New York City Mayor Abe Beame said: "The social toll of this kind of unwilling...
...crippling symptoms of what is now referred to as Minamata disease. Howling in pain and racked by convulsions, 106 citizens of Minamata died over a period of a decade, and many other victims became deaf, blind or insane. In 1963, after scientists had determined that mercury poisoning was to blame, the government banned fishing in the bay and ordered Chisso to remove the pollutant from the plant's wastes. The company was soon able to stop using mercury in its industrial processes...
People have directed their anger at each other instead of at low quality education. The Boston School Committee, which allowed Boston schools to deteriorate while they promoted segregation and racism, blame black people for the low quality of education. On the other hand. Judge Garrity's decision essentially puts the burden of improving black people's education on working class white people. His busing plan, for example, does not include the suburbs. Black and white people ought to place the responsibility for their deteriorating schools where it belongs: with the people who run the Boston school system, and ultimately, with...
...Ambassador to India. In the March issue of Commentary, he calls on the U.S. to adopt a tougher stance toward the Third World. He excoriates Americans for an "extraordinarily passive, even compliant" policy that tries-but fails-to appease the developing nations by remaining silent when Third World leaders blame the West for famine and poverty...
...this, it is easy to blame the thieves, the fences, the government or even Italy itself. The nation is burdened with the cornucopia of a past that its present cannot protect or even use coherently. But the blame also lies elsewhere. For the past 15 years, every literate person in Europe and the U.S. has been molded by the incessant pressure of propaganda about art as a commodity: by museums which flaunt their directorial machismo by advertising the prices of their million-dollar acquisitions; by witless journalists whose only peg for discussing art is its price; by collectors who grub...