Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should be noted, however, that Israel is not solely to blame for shattering the fragile status-quo. Moreover, the terrorist attack gives some validity to Israeli fears about negotiating with the PLO at this stage. That is not meant to belittle the necessity of establishing a Palestinian homeland on the West Bank. Nor is it intended to imply that an overall settlement at Geneva--taking account of that necessity--is not the ultimate solution to the problem of peace. It does suggest, though, that perhaps the best way to capitalize on the momentum left over from Egyptian President Sadat...
...Moscow as requested on Feb. 1 and 2,1972, and asked for the reason for the delay in sending the weapons which the Soviet leaders had promised me. Brezhnev said he was personally to blame. It was due, he said, to the necessary paperwork, the inevitable red tape, and similar things. "I am not convinced of that," I said...
Washington's befuddled statements about the dollar are only part of the trouble. More at issue is how well the U.S. is adjusting to a changed world economy. Oil is the test case. For Americans, it is temptingly easy to blame all the dollar's problems on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and the arithmetic is irrefutable. If OPEC had not quintupled oil prices beginning in 1973, the U.S. would not now be paying almost $45 billion a year for imported petroleum; if the oil bill were smaller, the country would not be running a trade deficit...
...passive, dependent man who has sought out a strong wife to shield him from worldly problems. Barbara Star, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California, finds that battered spouses are usually people who feel overwhelmed by life, repress all strong feelings and tend to blame themselves for whatever goes wrong. Most, she explains, are convinced that fighting back is useless...
Swados sadly indulges in a punitive blame game charging parents with a shortfall of love. Short decades ago, the family was a self-contained unit sustained by all of society. Today, the world invades the home, and luck plays a greater role than affection or discipline in welding family unity...