Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that party leaders' autocratic exercise of "democratic centralism"-the party's code word for unquestioned rule from the top-had provoked the split with François Mitterrand's Socialists and the splintering of the once confident Union de la Gauche. When Marchais chose simply to blame the Socialists rather than examine in cold detail the causes of the March defeat, six party intellectuals took the unprecedented step of attacking the Politburo in Le Monde...
Managers are mystified by the slowdown, and they, like Grayson, put the rap on Government regulations and those labor leaders who equate productivity drives with speedup and exploitation. But there is blame aplenty for managers as well, says Grayson. Too many are overly concerned with short-term profits, on which their bonuses and stock options are based. With inflation, regulation and high taxes all biting into today's earnings, managers put off investing in machines that would raise tomorrow's productivity...
...sound of bookies dancing in the street could be heard throughout the cities and towns of the Ivy League yesterday, and who can blame them...
...human rights affairs of the nation. He fired the head of SAVAK, who had been identified with that agency's most notorious terror tactics, freed a number of prisoners, and promised to allow dissidents to be tried in civilian rather than military courts. But some specialists in the region blame those small liberalizing measures for the present turmoil. Says one: "Many Iranians took these changes as a sign that the Shah was weakening and responded with almost total cynicism...
...revolt against poverty. But he also arouses our affection for the privileged farmer, a kind and sickly man whose riches pay off only in loneliness and boredom. To Malick, all these people are victims of their innocent faith in a warped American dream. Their tragedy is that they blame themselves, rather than their false ideals, for the misery of their lives. Though none of the characters can find either happiness or justice, God ultimately passes his own judgment on their plight. Days of Heaven climaxes with a cleansing, Old Testament plague of locusts-a nighttime Apocalypse so damning that...