Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's problems with a wringing of hands and perfunctory laments about federal support of the Sunbelt the flight of the middle class to the suburbs, and the greediness of banks and unions, achieves nothing, but Auletta notes that New Yorkers have been offered little more. He says to blame "historical and economic forces, everything and everybody, is to blame nobody. We run the risk of learning nothing from what happened to New York. So Auletta looks at each party's involvement in the collapse and outlines specifically how each is responsible...
...little like pregnancy: usually a cause for celebration-but not always. A large increase in earnings brings more complaints than cheers when citizens are up in arms over soaring prices, workers are pressing for higher wages, and the White House is looking for someone, or something, to blame for its losing battle against inflation. In these circumstances, last week's report of an earnings surge created a serious political dilemma for President Carter and a public relations migraine for business...
More subtly, he seeks to lay the blame on "the conference organizers" for all that he thought was ill. His analysis directly equates the organizational difficulties, which clearly did exist (although none was specifically documented in the article), with the ineptitude of the conference organizers. While we think that some fault does lie with the organizers, we feel that Fried ignored and was unsympathetic to other inherent difficulties which the conference faced: e.g., that this was the first venture ever of its kind, that all money had to be raised by students, that there was a short amount of time...
Bearing the Blame...
Richmond and classmate Abby Meiselman--in large part--shoulder the responsibility (or blame) for coach Peter Felske's decision to pit Harvard against the most talented group of opponents the team has ever faced...