Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government is partially to blame for the high cost of the machine, he said. It stopped buying CATs just as scores of new companies entered the market. These new companies went bankrupt without government patronage and the remaining companies began charging more, Rumbaugh added...
...these ambitious social goals have been fulfilled. Instead, Mexico has become one of the world's most stratified and unequal societies. Ironically, much of the blame for Mexico's failure to achieve its constitutional goals must be placed on the unique political instrument that is supposed to embody the ideal of the permanent revolution: the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the P.R.I...
Congress took one pratfall last week for which it had only itself to blame. At issue was a 7% pay hike that would in crease Congressmen's salaries to $61,525 a year. The House first passed the mea sure, 156 to 64, using a parliamentary procedure that kept individual members' votes from being recorded, thus preventing constituents back home from learning which Congressmen supported the raise and which ones opposed it Later, pay-raise opponents forced a roll call, which required that a record be made of how each member voted. Asked Republican Representative Gerald Solomon...
However, SHS could not blame Moses for its fundamental weaknesses. Faced with over 1000 applications from entering students, SHS stumbled over the problem of attaching guides to freshmen...
...blame tenors for trying to ward off their demons with all the vanities for which they are so notorious?the fads, phobias, neuroses, magic charms and eccentric sexual regimens? (Dressing-room lore abounds with theories on whether singers should eschew sex before a performance and, if so, for how long. Most tenors seem to feel that two or three days of abstinence builds their strength. Several leading men in the 1940s, the story goes, were sabotaged by a shapely U.S. soprano who seduced them just before the curtain.) The only supernatural aid Pavarotti enlists to get himself onstage...