Word: blame
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...defending a school system that has never been adequate for the needs of their own children. The schools have always been poor, but not until the advent of busing has the cry of "quality education" been raised. The very people raising that cry are those who are to blame for the school system's deplorable state: past and present School Committee members, like Hicks, Kerrigan, Tierney and Ellison. These people are making money from the crisis, and conducting the School Committee illegally in the process according to a report recently prepared by the Boston Finance Commission. Contrary to state...
...reassess its participation in NATO in response to Congress's cutoff of U.S. military aid (TIME, Feb. 17). Moreover, the confrontation came just as U.S. relations with Athens were on the mend. Said George Mavros, chief opposition leader in the Greek Parliament: "It's unprecedented. I blame [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger, and I blame [Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei] Gromyko. They have been talking about stability and peace and a fair solution on Cyprus. What do we have tonight? The eastern Mediterranean in a shambles." A senior American naval officer concurred: "The entire American posture is in disarray...
...Most of the ills that people blame on the unfettered operation of the market are really the results of illegitimate government interventions," Nozick said. "Blaming the current economic problems on the market is yet another example of this...
...four musicians convincingly transmitted a powerful and unified conception of the piece to a rapt audience. Those who bemoan the state of musical performance at Harvard will have to find someone other than undergraduate musicians to blame...
...nation's present economic troubles stem directly from policy mistakes of both the Nixon and Ford Administrations. The biggest miscalculation, in the Board's view, was the persistent pursuit of overly restrictive anti-inflation programs. In this, Treasury Secretary William Simon gets most of the blame for his strenuous emphasis on budget balancing. On monetary policy, the Fed is given low marks for its stingy money policies through much of the year. Says IBM's David Grove: "Underlying the Administration's policy was a judgment that it was overridingly important to get inflation under control...