Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sales have slumped for eight consecutive months, largely because it moved away from discounting in an effort to improve profit margins. Now Sears can claim that price reductions are an act of inflation-fighting patriotism instead of a necessary step to woo back customers, and it can blame any lower profits on Government pressure...
...Spectacular Bid fails to win the Derby-and the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes-many backstretchers would blame the inexperience of Jockey Ron Franklin, 19. Three years ago, Franklin was a high school dropout whose lifetime experience with horses consisted of working alongside posters of Trigger in a Roy Rogers Roast Beef restaurant in his home town near Baltimore. During a visit to the city's Pimlico Race Course in 1976, Franklin heard the track announcer advertising an opening in Delp's stable. The youngster applied and was hired on the spot as a "hot-walker," the lowest...
Everything is submerged into his work, at which he labors compulsively, since it is the vehicle through which he exercises his self-determined imperative to keep growing intellectually and spiritually. His actors unfailingly speak of his kindness and patience, his refusal to let anyone but himself take the blame for a snafu. Yet, says Joffe, he can be "extremely arrogant and extremely hostile. He has to be goddam comfortable with you before he'll show it, and it's not really related to his ego. It's related to the demands he makes on himself...
...other pressures on Miller to tighten money became so obvious before the Open Market Committee meeting that Carter sent notes to Blumenthal and Schultze telling them to stop it. The President did not necessarily oppose the Fed's raising interest rates, but he did not want the voters to blame him for it. Said a White House staff member: "There was a feeling that if a Democratic Administration was even tighter than the Federal Reserve Board, something was wrong. Put the monkey on the Fed's back, not ours...
Still, many faculty also blame the limited student influence on decision-making on a decline in students' political interests, and on the unavoidable realities of running a university such as Harvard. "It seemed to happen overnight. I woke up one morning and there were fewer political organizations," Walzer says. And, as Thomson ruefully summarizes the lasting gains and eroding gains of the strike: "If it hadn't happened there wouldn't have been as much student input as you get these days. But the problem was that students were transients, and ultimately the power lies with those who are here...