Word: blame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years after the highly publicized divorce, the court ruled in favor of John Fedders's argument that his ex-wife, Charlotte, must share some of the blame for the beatings she suffered. She, the court decided, denied him emotional support during his times of depression. In a Kafkaesque fashion, the official went on to award John Fedders 25 percent of the proceeds from Charlotte's new book. The book, Shattered Dreams, deals mostly with physical and emotional abuse she and her children suffered during her marriage...
Another member, Rep. Bill McCollum, (R-Fla.), said he disagrees with the committee's majority, which he said concluded in the report that while Reagan's political appointees made errors, the system of governing that Reagan set up was not to blame...
...throughout And We Are Not Saved to describe negative aspects of Black behavior. Thus the crime rate among Blacks can be cured like an illness. Again and again, cures for Black pathologies are discovered, then destroyed. But Bell is doing more than laying bare the hypocrisy of whites who blame the victims. By harping on the analogy of disease as an absurd explanation for Black behavior, he makes the unstated point that it is whites who are stricken with a disease: racism. Ultimately, it is they who must be cured. And, Bell seems to be saying, only Blacks...
While the government blames the war for its economic ills, many Nicaraguans blame a centralized economy modeled after the Soviet system. Though Managua controls only 40% of the economy, prices and wages in the private sector are also set by the Sandinistas. The Soviet Union has underwritten most of the direct costs of the war against the contras, but it has been less willing to fill what might be called the Micawber Gap, the expanding gulf between income and expenditure. Exports have fallen from $636 million in 1977 to an estimated $230 million this year. Imports have remained fairly constant...
...stocks surged so high this year that they were bound to crash, part of the blame belongs to America's relentless band of corporate raiders. As takeover titans battled to outbid one another, the share prices of many target companies -- or companies merely rumored to be targets -- reached unrealistic levels. Now, in the aftermath of Black Monday, the big deals are crumbling, and the raiders are retreating. But for how long? Is this the nadir of the raider, or will sagging stock prices make the targets more irresistible than ever...