Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected to call in the union business agent, the union's representative to the employers, if she cannot resolve a problem with an employer. It is a frustrating and thankless job. Chairladies often feel powerless, and call in the business agent before taking any action. Then they blame the business agent's insensitivity to their complaints and his apparent friendliness with the employer...
...DIFFICULT not to be angered by the financial plight of Harvard's graduate students. It is even more difficult to know whom to blame...
...plainly, the streetworkers seem to be doing their jobs, but the administration remains inadequate and out of touch. And most of the blame seems to fall on the Bureau's director, Kerry Saravelas...
This time, for what it was worth, the blame for the outburst of violence could be leveled at the Protestant side: the long-feared backlash was a fact at last. For the British army, the renewed violence created a second front, a vicious situation in which its men were being shot at by both Protestant and Catholic extremists. The flare-up caused the British government to order yet another round of troop reinforcements for Northern Ireland. It remained to be seen whether, in the long run, the two-sided sniping at Britain's army would lead British public opinion...
...more often, however, it is the students themselves who are the victims. School officials blame most of these incidents on intruders, often dropouts who return to prey on their former schoolmates. They lie in wait in school toilets to shake down students for their lunch money, roam the halls and playgrounds extorting and terrorizing...