Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Plainly, the military academies have lots of company when it comes to cheating. Educators agree that intense pressure for better grades is at least partly to blame. An ill-prepared student may panic and copy from a classmate during a test simply to pass. More often, it seems, the cheater is not the marginal student but the one with aspirations for graduate school or law school...
...Even in the old days, Ehrlichman had a way with words. It was he, for instance, who came up with the phrase "modified, limited hangout," a memorable locution, which in practice was roughly translatable as "admit as little truth as possible and try to put the whole blame on John Mitchell." So successful were the President's men at concealing truth that despite all the reports, books and films since Watergate, Ehrlichman's novel is sure to be grasped by his still frustrated countrymen in hopes of gathering a few more shards of information about the political hecatomb...
...deposit the blame, however, for an entire season on one individual shows little baseball knowledge. One season does not dictate the decline of an entire baseball program, a program which in the past six seasons includes four Eastern titles, and three trips to the National Championships...
...race or minority group under affirmative action quotas. Such a person most likely will feel bitterness towards the favored races and minority groups, a feeling that will foster a racist attitude. Even where the applicant is rejected solely on the basis of his qualifications, he is still likely to blame the quotas...
...convey the superiority of the free enterprise system, the people of one nation, and probably others, weren't convinced. In the aftermath, President Ford called for a defeat without recrimination, which meant that the best the responsible elites could hope for was to escape the "tragic error" without blame...