Word: blame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing, Duarte needed a counterbalance to the Anaya murder, which has badly damaged his reputation for curbing the senseless violence. Second, in the event of violent clashes between left and right, the President would have scapegoats to blame for El Salvador's failure to live up to the strictures of the Central American peace accord. "Everyone wants to jockey for p.r. advantage," says a U.S. State Department official. "They seem to have figured out that when the January deadline ((for the peace plan)) rolls around, no one will be in complete compliance. So the thing to do is appear...
...swords at Zamora and Ungo. An anonymous threat appeared in El Diario: "Do not lament when people, acting out of desperation, take justice into their own hands, and we find ourselves in the middle of a civil war for which you and Duarte's Christian Democrats will be to blame...
Greider documents the fact that the Federal Reserve usually pursues tight- money policies that favor the interests of rather than borrowers. He holds the Fed responsible for virtually every recession that has occurred in its 74 years of existence. Like many economists, Greider argues that the governors were to blame for the severity of the Great Depression of the 1930s...
Much of the blame lies with his unwillingness to heed warnings about his hapless state organization. One top Iowa supporter, former State Party Chairman Ed Campbell, finally got his attention by asking, "How do you sleep at night?" With that, the usually unemotional candidate exploded into profanity and demanded an accounting from his organizers. He has since named his third state coordinator in a year, and the new team is scrambling to make up lost ground...
...chart begins with blighted childhoods: each man lost his father young. Each was severely disturbed, opening his psychic wounds and bleeding into confessional verse. But they all went a step beyond, steeping in self- pity, some sabotaging their marriages with meaningless affairs, others sniping at colleagues and then placing blame elsewhere. "American society would drive anybody out of his skull," fumed Berryman...