Word: blame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lear is a manic-depressive and reports she is on lithium to control the condition. But she does not blame her disorder for the magazine's stormy evolution. "In the beginning, there was a lack of experience on my part," she concedes. "It was difficult for me to make important decisions." ^ According to several on the 35-member staff, she settled down as the magazine neared takeoff. Initially a bimonthly with a 200,000 circulation, it is supposed to go monthly by 1990 and ultimately grow to 1 million subscribers. Can it? Executive Vice President Marc Liu reports that direct...
...Dole has indeed waffled about whether some new revenues might be necessary to tackle the deficit issue. But so at times has Bush.) Behind the scenes, Dole accused his minions of losing the contest for him. "When things go wrong," said an aide, "Dole's not the type to blame himself." At week's end the Dole staff appeared to be coming unglued. Amid all the angry finger pointing, the Senator's aides seemed unable to come up with a revamped strategy for their candidate...
...buffet lunch in a hotel restaurant with his teammates, he pulled his long face up from the table to do just one interview, with a TIME correspondent. "O.K., action!" this shyest and most decent of ski heroes yelled out, trying to cheer the others with him. He declined to blame the weather. "Sure it was windy, but it had no effect on my racing." Or the course. "It was an easy slope, not too hard for me. I was going so fast, and you never know on slalom." Soon the rare mistake was behind him, and he was talking...
...Cambridge police, the more students who follow Feldman's example and stop riding, the better. Cambridge policemen blame a large part of the city's traffic problems on the bikers. The bicyclists' blatant disregard for the laws of the road, they say, adds unnecessary problems to the already congested Harvard Square...
...Even if I say, 'Gee, Jen, sorry about that goal. That was my man,' she'll say, 'Brita, don't worry about it,'" Lind says. "She's not willing to blame the team. If someone scores, she just forgets about it and the game goes on. You just really feel good when...