Word: blame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reese refuses to blame the campaign's negative quality entirely on the 'handlers'--the political consultants who have scripted the campaign and controlled the candidates to ensure the maximum number of sound bites. "That's the ultimate cop-out," he says...
...blame [the CGLA] for bringing attention to their cause," said Gilmore, "but it is wrong when this is done at the expense of others...
...financial world often seems to whirl over our heads, but then suddenly entangles us without our knowledge in enterprises from which we might like to keep distant. But who's to place blame? Let him who has never had a Double Stuff cast the first stone, right...
...revelations left local residents badly shaken. Some refer to one stretch near Hanford as "death mile," where they claim to have counted an unusually high number of cancer deaths. Others point to their "downwinder" neck scars as evidence of thyroid operations that they blame on radioactive-iodine releases from the weapons plant. Robert Perkes, a farmer near Mesa, his wife and three of his daughters all take medication for underactive thyroid glands. "They didn't tell us the things that were going on," Perkes complains. "They were letting it fall all over us. They used us as guinea pigs...
...companies blame that on late notification from the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on what type of vaccine would be needed this year. The CDC says the problem stems from the fact that some of the viruses causing this year's flu take unusually long to cultivate for vaccines...