Word: blame
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Last year the average U.S. household used some 8,000 kw-h., or more than thirteen times as much as in the 1930s. Contrary to much pop sociology, a proliferation of frivolous power gadgets is not to blame. An electric toothbrush uses only 0.5 kwh. of electricity per year, about a penny's worth. A carving knife costs about 18? per year, or 8 kw-h., a garbage disposer about 69?, or 30 kwh. per year. Because they are expressly engineered for specific functions, the new electric griddles, fry pans, toasters and coffeemakers are more efficient and economical than...
...closer to home: in the past three years, 78 public officeholders have been indicted by federal grand juries in New Jersey. Sandman, moreover, stood at the far right of the party and admitted: "Watergate didn't help us, Vice President Agnew didn't help us. But I blame nobody but myself. It could be that [the party] didn't choose a better candidate in June...
...could blame anyone for thinking all this running about is insane? Certainly no one can be blamed for being exhausted by the whole mad affair. The crazy foot-race that has become the key to post-war American culture, as we have discovered, isn't all that pleasant a sort of life...
...Some people blame Chairman Brezhnev," Simes said. "I will blame Mr. Kissinger." The muting of American protest was interpreted by the Soviets as weakness, Simes added...
...virtual disappearance of the anchovies did not result entirely from the errant current, according to Fisheries Research Adviser C.P. Idyll. Writing in Scientific American, he places much of the blame on human greed. U.N. and Peruvian experts had long recommended that the fishing industry take no more than 10 million tons of anchovies a year; that catch would not prevent the fish population from reproducing itself annually. But in 1970 the fishermen caught a record 12 million tons, and almost 11 million in 1971. As a result, Idyll believes, the anchovy stocks are so depleted that they may take years...