Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claimed at least 20 victims in the past two years, including six FBI informants and potential witnesses. Though Attorney Gallina, who had defended major crime figures-notably, members of the East Coast Genovese Mafia family-was killed by .38-cal. bullets, he was undoubtedly the 21st victim. Federal officials blame his slaying on a leak from the grand jury; leaks from secret Government files and sealed court records have led to the deaths of the other informants...
...memorandums unearthed by investigators seem to indicate that the company was, at minimum, anxious not to be left out. One Gulf lawyer wrote a memo in June 1972 outlining the potential advantages of membership, and suggesting that if the cartel's activities ever came to light Gulf could blame everything on the Canadian government. Another Gulf officer took it on himself to pull together several scattered sets of cartel rules into a single code of conduct...
...problem is that they have not any of them sailed in enough top-flight events yet to avoid silly mistakes" Horn says. Long agrees, and places the blame on a lack of interest among the rest of the student body. "The key is getting enough people down there to give the top sailors the practice they need, to get them honed to a fine edge," he notes...
Teachers also blame the administration for not giving direction to the school and for lowering standards. "I used to be tough and demanding, but I was told to lay off," confides one teacher. If he fails more than 20% of his students, he says, he is "called on the carpet"?a plaint echoed by other teachers...
...this Rigoletto's failings, Dexter must bear most of the blame. Yet Levine, despite the beauty and power of his conducting, cannot be totally absolved. It is the peculiar penchant of both to want to concentrate as much action as possible at the front of the stage. In Dexter's case the practice seems to have developed during a brilliant career on the legitimate stages of Broadway and London's West End. For Levine it seems to be a case of wanting to bring the singers closer to both the audience and his own podium. They...