Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crime are increasing. They are angry at what they consider a still-spiraling cost of living and unfair, ever-rising taxes, while their income seems to be frozen. They regard busing to integrate schools as foolish. As they search for the causes of their malaise, they do not necessarily blame President Nixon. But they do feel that the Nixon Administration and party leaders lie to them. They do not trust the press, either. The cynicism extends, surprisingly, even to Nixon's celebrated summitry in Peking and his impending trip to Moscow. Most find these trips either a bore...
Whatever the cause and whenever it is made, a diagnosis of retardation can be a preface to tragedy. Nervous breakdowns, divorce, suicide and even homicidal tendencies are believed to be more common among the parents of the retarded than in families without the problem. Many parents predictably blame-and pity-themselves. One of the most difficult decisions is whether to keep the child or have him "put away." For some, an institution is the only answer; the burdens of home care are simply too great, the impact on the family too disruptive. Others, to whom that prospect is intolerable, frequently...
Placing the blame for this mess is not a simple task. Labor unions, rail management and the Government all share the responsibility...
...inhabit everything is, in one way or another, related to everything else. But all that this amounts to is the truism that there can be no absolutes in our moral judgment. Nothing is purely right or purely wrong; similarly, no one is entirely responsible or is entirely without blame for the many evils that beset us. Our values and our judgments are not only relative, but can only be practically employed in terms of degrees of intensity. In making practical ethical judgments two things are uppermost in our minds: the degree of voluntariness and the degree of relevance involved...
...blame for high food prices where it rightfully belongs-on the modern American housewife...