Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Siriani, Perkins blames the judicial system. "All the legislation in the world will be of no avail unless it's enforced, and the enforcement is extremely poor," he says. "I don't blame the officer on the street for that either." Massachusetts judges too often fail to impose sentences on criminals who have been caught carrying unlicensed handguns, Perkins says...
...flurry of federal investigation. Last week, as its first official act of consequence, the Government's 3½-month-old Council on Wage and Price Stability held two days of hearings about sugar prices. The council, which has no authority to order price rollbacks, carefully refrained from fixing blame. But it did present a study made by its staff that concluded that all sections of the sugar industry -cane and beet growers and refiners -have made "very large windfall gains." For example, Amstar Corp., the nation's largest sugar refiner, has recorded a 221% rise in profits...
...vast amounts of money to buy support within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.). Tanaka clung to office just long enough to welcome President Ford to Tokyo. Five days after Ford's departure, Tanaka did what most Japanese expected of him. He said he was "solely to blame" for the political crisis engulfing Japan. "I feel pain that I cannot bear. That is why I have decided to submit my resignation...
...think you can blame the turnovers on inexperience," Sanders said. "It could result from any number of things. But the free throws were what really hurt...
Never So Long. Detroit's automen have their own explanations as to why most models are not moving. President Ford did them little good when, in October in Kansas City, Mo., he urged consumers to save more and buy judiciously. Auto executives also blame tight credit for frightening potential buyers and Limiting dealers' ability to keep cars in inventory. Last week Chrysler President John Riccardo was in Washington urging Michigan's Congressmen to push for looser credit...