Word: blame
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...Kissinger do it? His friends blame it on exhaustion,* compounded by hubris and an extreme sensitivity to criticism. Kissinger, 51, himself admitted during the Salzburg conference that his first meeting with the press and its tough questions about Watergate after his return from the Middle East left him "irritated, angered, flustered, discombobulated." For days after, Kissinger brooded over that press conference. He thought that the attacks were unfair and exaggerated out of all proportion when compared with his achievements in foreign policy. He conveyed his unhappiness to friends, newsmen and legislators and sought their advice over the weekend before...
...Gulag I, Solzhenitsyn puts the blame for the introduction of systematic terror squarely on Lenin. He notes that Lenin was the first Soviet leader to use the designation "concentration camps," thus "launching one of the most important terms of the 20th century." Indeed, he adds, "The Archipelago was born with the first gun salvos of Aurora" -the battle cruiser that signaled Lenin's seizure of power in October 1918. The "alma mater," as Solzhenitsyn calls it, of all subsequent forced-labor camps was established under Lenin in 1923 on the Solovetsky Islands in the Arctic. Later, Stalin made slave...
Higher-Ups. Embarrassed prosecutors blame Hart's leniency for most of the uproar which has prompted more and more questions about all Watergate plea bargains. The practice itself is little admired but long established in the U.S. judicial system, where it is used mainly to reduce the number of trials on already crowded court dockets. But this consideration is scarcely relevant to Watergate; federal prosecutors defend their use of bargained pleas on other grounds. For one thing, the bargains have meant sure, final convictions in many cases that might have been shaky in court. Also, the lesser Watergate cases...
Polaroid officials admit that film sales are below their high original expectations, but they will not say how much below. They blame a lackluster economy that makes users less inclined to stock up on film, despite discounts of up to $1.40 off the film's list price of $6.90 for a ten-picture pack. Stock analysts relate reports of dead batteries in some early film packs, while camera experts say picture quality has sometimes suffered from poor chemical distribution inside the film pack. The company has been eliminating the bugs...
Officials blame much of the epidemic on the primitive conditions in Bihar. The state, which has a population of more than 60 million, is one of India's most backward. Ninety percent of its people live in villages that are little more than clusters of one-room mud huts. The people are largely illiterate, and some are afraid to report the disease for fear they will be socially ostracized and deprived of their jobs. "Some of these people would sooner travel 100 miles to a temple of Shitala to pray to her to spare their children than report...