Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action programs in business, education and government. "Everybody is holding their breath. Courts and defendants are trying to do as little as possible until they see what the Bakke decision will say," says one lawyer. Notes Joseph Rauh, a leading civil rights attorney in Washington: "I don't blame the courts. They don't want to rule one way today and be reversed by the Supreme Court next month...
...whole. Sprinkel makes a grimmer projection: inflation will top 7% in every quarter of 1978 and hit 7.6% in December. Says he: "We have thrown away all the gains against inflation we made in the recession and are off on another binge." He puts most of the blame on the Federal Reserve's easygoing and often erratic money supply policies. Sprinkel believes that the Fed eventually will do better under its new chairman, G. William Miller, who has stressed that he will tighten supply to fight inflation. Last week the Fed raised its discount rate for lending to member...
...Blame The Dean...
...President to break the deadlocks, to rally support for his programs (or at least for the ones we like). If chauvinists got as far as they did in trying to defeat the Panama Canal treaties, we blame Carter for not rousing the country behind his proposals. If the Midwestern growers or the Western truck farmers are unhappy with Carter's food or water policies, we blame him, not necessarily for the policies but for somehow not soothing those interests...
...Congress acts with the independence many have urged on it, we blame him for not controlling or manipulating it well enough. The President is not only criticized for advancing this or that program, he is also criticized for not being able to engineer consent...