Word: blame
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...major sociological study issued last week, however, claims that such liberalizing measures are in fact highly popular. Instead, the study puts the blame for the U.S. church's decline squarely on Pope Paul's 1968 encyclical against "artificial" birth control. Disillusion over the encyclical, in fact, may have cost the American church more than $1 billion a year in contributions. That contention is part of a book by Andrew M. Greeley, William C. McCready and Kathleen McCourt: Catholic Schools in a Declining Church (Sheed & Ward, 483 pages; $15). In it Father Greeley, 48, a sociologist and acidulous Catholic...
Many observers have predicted the bill would gain a handy majority on the Senate floor, but so far its opponents have kept it from reaching a vote. The blame for the Senate's inability to move can be laid to several causes, but anybody's list will include the name of Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairman James A. Kelly...
...that Patty Hearst [March 1] was brainwashed? Have we forgotten how our whole society was brainwashed? When radical chic ruled Park Avenue? When Bloomingdale's sold bandoliers for fashionable ladies to sport across their chests? When a Governor told his state's rioters he didn't blame them for taking what they thought should be theirs? When universities turned down fifth-generation, all-A students for the lowest SATs? When middle-class kids became so confused they didn't feel right (or even safe) clad in decent clothes...
Leaks about Negotiations: "Ambassador [Simcha] Dinitz delicately commented that many leaks were apparently coming from the American delegation. Kissinger went wild. 'You blame the Americans?' he asked incredulously. The journalists who accompanied him, he said, knew nothing except what he told them. And he only told them what served the negotiations...
Bump Incomes. Kerry put much of the blame on officials. Troubled churches write in for help and their pleas go unanswered, he claimed, and devout practitioners receive abusive letters. The all-powerful five-member Board of Directors, he added, avoids urgent matters. Even so, he said, the directors are paid $54,000 a year-appreciably more than the top executives of larger church groups-and are able to bump their average incomes up to $100,000 a year with copyright and other income as trustees for the estate of Founder Mary Baker Eddy, as well as various additional fees...