Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saudis contend that the oil companies' profit is "excessive," and that the leap in taxes and royalties is only fair. In effect, the Saudis are saying that they are lowering posted prices, and that if consumers are asked to pay more, then the oil companies are to blame...
...ponder the facts you present in such depth in your special section on the world food crisis [Nov. 11]. But I take issue with the crucial part entitled "What to Do: Costly Choices." You say, "The so-called less-developed countries will have to resist the temptation to blame the world's ills on the former colonial powers and the U.S." It is equally true that the U.S. and the former colonial powers will have to take much more seriously what the LDCs are saying...
...college professors blame the high school teachers who blame the middle school teachers who blame the elementary school teachers who blame the parents who blame the teachers...
Alas! Alack! Unfair! Unjust! to only blame poor Milt...
...have done to stem the Democratic tide. Said Pollster Daniel Yankelovich: "If the issue had been just the economy or just Watergate, there would not have been the same outcome. But at some level of consciousness, the people put the two together. The result was clear-cut anger and blame. They zeroed in on the Nixon-related Republicans, not conservative Democrats or liberal Republicans." In large measure, the reaction sprang from the electorate's strong trend toward populism and moral indignation, as limned in TIME Soundings, the quarterly survey conducted by Yankelovich's firm (TIME...