Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gets involved in personnel problems. He has a brisk approach to subordinates that he may have inherited from his father. He often tells his staff how the patriarch would have handled a problem. Like Joseph Kennedy, the Senator rarely hands out compliments or credit but is quick to assess blame when something goes wrong. Once he angrily dressed down an aide for not informing his mother that he was going to appear on a TV interview show. After he cooled off, the aide explained in a memo that Rose had been out when the staff called and that...
...week after the accident, and after he had consulted with at least seven old Kennedy hands. He has denied that he was drunk, that he and Kopechne were intentionally heading toward the beach or that he spent the hours after the accident trying to find a way to escape blame for it. Kennedy acknowledges that he was "irresponsible" in not phoning police...
...accident such a rare and isolated sequence of equipment failures and human errors as to have no implications for the safety of the other 72 U.S. nuclear power plants or the 88 new plants for which construction permits have been granted. But the commission's report places the blame so widely on federal regulators, the plant's builders and managers and control room operators that six of the twelve members voted to ask President Carter to ban the construction of any new nuclear plants until suggested reforms could be enacted. This moratorium failed to gain a majority only...
...assessing blame, the report claims that General Public Utilities Service Corp., which constructed T.M.I.'s Units No. 1 and No. 2, ''lacked the staff or expertise to discharge its responsibility'' for designing a safe plant. Then G.P.U.S.C...
...areas of distinction. Cleveland's rock culture is overshadowed even in Ohio by Devo and the other New Wave spuds sprouting in Akron, while readers of Fortune will note Cleveland's fall from third to fourth among corporate headquarters for major U.S. industrials. The businessmen may be inclined to blame the latter on Mayor Dennis Kucinich...