Word: blame
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Federal misspending is partly to blame. U.S. aid to American Samoa goes to, among other places, an academic high school that does not teach enough skills useful on the island. Of its 600 graduates a year, 400 leave the island to find jobs. As a result, more American Samoans live in Honolulu and Los Angeles than in the South Pacific. Micronesia's annual suicide rate is 20 per 100,000 people, nearly double that...
Sunday case, Vermont Superior Judge Wynn Underwood, himself an avid skier, refused to allow immediate dismissal "simply because there are some inherent risks in the sport." Ironically, Underwood cited vastly improved maintenance and patrol operations at major ski areas as one reason operators might be held to blame. On such well-groomed slopes, the judge suggested, skiers no longer expect to encounter boulders or stumps and thus can no longer be responsible for assuming that high risks exist in the natural course of things...
...ever know for sure what rate of money-supply growth is just right for the economy, nor produce it even if he did know. Congress and the White House face equal uncertainties in their own duties of economic management. It is an eternal temptation for them to blame whatever goes wrong on the Fed, and during Burns' tenure both did. It is Burns' finest accomplishment that he yielded to neither and leaves with the respect if not the agreement of both...
...more muscular. All we can say is that the weight increase we found is due to fat." One cause might be junk food and quick lunches, eaten hastily. Independent physicians who treat many overweight patients are inclined to put at least as much if not more blame on prolonged TV watching, especially for men who spend many weekend hours entranced by football, enhanced with a six-pack of beer at their elbows...
...comes at just the right season. Except for the principal actors and St. Luke, no one has done more to create the modern Christmas than Charles Dickens. Scrooge and Tiny Tim are almost as ubiquitous as Santa Claus. Small matter that the Times of London came to blame Dickens and his imitators for "the deluge of trash" that descended on booksellers each Christmas. Dickens' yuletide tales were hungrily awaited by hundreds of thousands; even when pressed by the demands of his novels, the author did not want to omit his annual story and thus "leave any gap at Christmas...