Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inspector Darby does not extend his conclusions. He refuses to assign blame for the accident or cover-up that followed, insisting that Kennedy is not a criminal...
Characters suffer fates that would challenge a classical god. Poor Elizabeth Stewart died a couple of days after her marriage on As the World Turns when she fell upstairs and ruptured her liver. On The Doctors, the sinister Dr. Allison killed himself in order to throw the blame on a successful rival. Later in the same show, an urbane psychiatrist, Dr. Morrison, drove his nurse to suicide so that she would not report his criminal behavior...
...Cree and Inuit agreed to relinquish all claims to their vast lands in return for $225 million, plus specific hunting, fishing and trapping rights and some voice in the governing and development of the region. But there remain Indians still un satisfied by the deal - and who can wholly blame them? It is one of the laws governing the balance of human nature that paper and promises erode much faster than real estate...
...economy in their favor; the wealthy nations want to help them, but not so much as to make their own citizens suffer. More specifically, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger believes that the newly rich oil-producing countries, which have quintupled the price of oil since 1973, are to blame for much of the economic anguish in the underdeveloped world and should share the burden...
...French producers, who insist that true champagne can only be a product of the special chalky soil and temperate climate of the region that bears its name, blame their sales problem on foreign imitations. They are dismayed by the popularity of Italian sparkling wines and Australian, Russian and even Japanese "champagnes," as well as the U.S. varieties. Battling back, French producers have launched the first publicity drive in the French champagne industry's history. At a cost of $425,000, billboards have been put up in some areas of France and neighboring Belgium that show two glasses raised...