Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These builders blame the overruns on poor planning by the admirals. Repeated changes in specifications, for instance, have been made after a contract has been negotiated and even while the ship was being built. According to Electric Boat, this plan-as-you-build technique caused at least 40,000 alterations in the design of the Los Angeles-class attack submarine. Most of these changes created a ripple effect, because shifting the location of one piece of equipment usually meant modifying dozens of other parts of the ship...
...Navy maintains, however, that the builders share much of the blame for what it calls "cost growth." The admirals cite low worker productivity at the shipyards, long delays in deliveries from subcontractors and an uneconomical and unwise expansion of productive capacity. Nonetheless, Navy Secretary Claytor concedes that "there is enough blame for everyone concerned...
...speaker was Home Plate, from the Soldiers Field Home Plates, and if he sounds a bit wary, you can't blame him. How would you sound, after all, if history had just been made...
...wake of the Corporation's report, the events of the upcoming days are practically impossible to predict. Students have exhausted traditional means of protest, apparently to no avail. We hope that non-violent protest will continue; whatever transpires, however, the Corporation will have only itself to blame...
...budget seems to have been so carefully calibrated that few could get excited about it-and the British get more excited about budgets than most people. "Too cautious," groused a Trades Union Congress chieftain. "Politically timid," grumbled Confederation of British Industry President John Greenborough. Healey himself was partly to blame. Expansive and voluble, he is given to flights of optimism. For example, he has predicted a drop in the inflation rate this year to 7%-down from the present 9.1% rate and a peak of 26% three years ago-for so long that if it is achieved, as expected...