Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rising prices appear to have badly damaged the public images of Government and big business. Asked whom they blame most for inflation, 32% said the Federal Government, 24% said big business. Asked who has been the main beneficiary of inflation, 43% said big business and 17% said rich people. Compounding the problem, the public doubts that any major institution in the country can solve inflation, as was shown when people were asked how much confidence they have in the ability of the following to handle...
...bring back wage and price controls (35% v. 26%) and cut defense spending (35% v. 28%). On at least one point, the public seems to agree with Ford. By 34% to 27%, those polled were willing to give some tax incentives to business-even though many blame big business for inflation-if the incentives would improve the economy...
There is a great Man living in this Country-a composer. He has solved the problem of how to preserve one's self and to learn. He responds to negligence by contempt. He is not forced to accept praise or blame. His name is Ives...
...intrigue around Nixon and new White House anecdotes. Haldeman, they claim, cemented his relationship with Nixon in 1961 by bolstering the then defeated candidate's shattered ego through weeks of patient listening and encouragement as Nixon labored over Six Crises. It is ironic, then, that the authors finally blame Haldeman for the act that ultimately finished Nixon: the secret taping of White House conversations. It was Haldeman's idea, they suggest, that after Nixon finished his second term, the tapes would be carefully edited and selected conversations would be left to stand as a monument to Richard Nixon...
...People are more open. I'm going to take a couple of years off after I graduate this June. Next year I'm going to Greece. My people are there. I can't help but being really pissed off at the administration here. They should take all the blame for Cyprus. Kissinger just encouraged the whole thing. This administration, it's just the same old bullshit...