Word: blame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think it would be unreasonable to attribute at least part of the blame for these inflationary nominative tendencies to members of the administration. It was they, after all, who sent each of us not just an acceptance letter, but our very own Certificate of Admission, remember? Indeed, it is the rare student among us who has not proudly framed this revered document, and just as proudly displayed it, Magna-Carta style, in the most conspicuous location possible. Certainly, it is the sort of thing that would surely have proved impressive on a date, if indeed such a concept existed...
State budgets have been severely strained by a combination of dwindling help from the debt-ridden national Government and Washington-mandated increases in spending for catastrophic health care and nursing homes. State officials also blame some unexpected consequences of the 1986 federal tax-reform law. Late in 1986 taxpayers rushed to sell securities and property before capital-gains taxes jumped from 20% to a current maximum of 33%. Some state planners rosily assumed this high revenue would continue. Cigarette smokers will pay for the miscalculation...
...beguiling it is to blame what might be called "Lone Star ethics" -- the symbiotic relationship between the freewheeling Texas business establishment and the state's political leadership that has created an environment where only suckers remain squeaky clean. As Washington Post columnist David Broder put it, "The Texas system has ruined more brilliant political figures than larger states such as California and New York have been capable of producing in the postwar period...
Green said that Harvard is not to blame for the problem. "To scream about why there aren't professors is foolish," she said...
Members of the council also placed some blame on the federal government for its cuts to state and local aid for health care...