Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble is the attitude of our State and Justice Departments, which penalize violators with $1,000 or $2,000 fines, even while they rip off mil lions in profit and hurt our economy tremendously. Congress, manufacturers associations and various chambers of commerce with their country club atmosphere are to blame as well...
...number of weaknesses in the safeguard system, including the obvious flaw of not having a remote-control method of adjusting a stuck valve. But human fallibility apparently was the more alarming shortcoming of what happened at Three Mile Island. Once the original on-site mistakes had been made, the blame spread to the NRC itself. Commission officials privately admit that they were slow to get an emergency crew with the necessary skill and authority to the scene of the disaster. Had the right men been there at the right time, three days before they finally did show up, they might...
...play itself must take some of the blame. As in many of Shakespeare's tragedies, the performance of the lead actor can make or break the production. In School for Wives, the role of Arnolphe is tremendously difficult. On stage throughout most of the show, Arnolphe must almost always convey comic consternation as Horace continually foils his lovely plans. The success of several scenes depends almost solely on Arnolphe's facial expressions upon hearing Horace's descriptions of the ups and downs of his attepts to woo Agnes. Toope has the energy to play Arnolphe, but little of the control...
...gouging surcharges and premiums they think they can get away with. That made official policy a tactic that many producing countries have been following all winter anyway. Finally, as if to add insult to financial injury, the OPEC representatives went out of their way to try to put the blame for the increase on the industrial countries, which they chide for not curbing both energy consumption and the inflation that is eroding the value of their petrodollars...
...most vocal blame layers at the Geneva meeting was Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, whose country has long been regarded as OPEC's principal voice for pricing restraint. Indeed, the Saudis, along with the delegates from Ecuador, Gabon, the United Arab Emirates and other moderates, managed to temper the egregious price demands being made by the hardliners, including the Iraqis, Iranians, Libyans and Algerians, who came to Geneva calling for increases of as much as 20% to 30%. But Yamani declared that his country's role as a "moderate" may not last much...