Word: blame
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...Managements examined their 2009 prospects late last year and prepared layoffs based on their knowledge that the current year would be rough. They made their job reductions based on those assumptions. But, many executives were completely wrong about the length and severity of this recession. It is hard to blame them for this mistake. Even well-regarded economists have had trouble giving reasonable forecasts for what will happen to joblessness, consumer spending, and industrial production over the next two or three months. The distance to any reasonable prediction horizon lessens as the downturn gets worse...
...blame for the financial crisis...
...Dahlan certainly has a score to settle with Hamas, which routed his U.S.-funded security forces in a 2007 showdown and drove them out of Gaza. And the Islamists have long loathed the Fatah strongman, whom they blame for alleged torture of Hamas detainees in Gaza during the late 1990s - an accusation Dahlan denies. But Hamas appears to be in no mood for unity talks with Dahlan's boss, either, despite Arab efforts to broker a reconciliation. And that could imperil the flow of international aid to Gaza, battered by Israel's 19-month economic blockade and the war that...
...start of Israel's offensive, one of Abbas' top aides said Hamas was "110 per cent" to blame for the Gaza attack - an unpopular, if not suicidal, stance among Palestinians, whose ire was directed at Israel. Even as the civilian death toll climbed, Abbas delayed several days before criticizing the Israeli offensive. In the West Bank, which Abbas controls by dint of the presence of the Israeli army, his security forces cracked down brutally on fellow Palestinians protesting the Israeli offensive. Palestinians ask why Abbas did not go to Gaza during the fighting to show solidarity with its residents...
...thing he doesn't want to happen is for people to blame him later that he didn't offer himself when he was called upon and needed most," explains Tajzadeh. "The worst that can happen is he'll lose. At least he won't be blamed for not running...