Word: blame
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...might blame the impotence of the Faculty these past several months on the Faculty Council, which decides determines both meeting dates and agendas. However, these decisions ultimately reflect the entire Faculty’s apathy, whose abysmally low attendance characterized the few meetings that were held. The Faculty are entrusted with a tremendous responsibility with the power to vote on all of these issues. If they were willing to commit a few hours every month to issues of such import, there would be no need for quorum to be even as low as one-sixth, let alone one-eighth...
...Core Program, ironically enough, bears part of the blame. The Core is supposed to encourage students to take classes from areas outside their concentration. But because most of the classes that meet its requirements are the designated “Core classes,” classified under the Core Curriculum rather than a particular department, most students stay confined to a tiny selection of classes. Of the 1500 classes listed in the Courses of Instruction, only 103 departmental classes count toward the Core, a disproportionate number of which are science or quantitative reasoning...
...What Happened as an admirable confession; it seems that McClellan waited a little too long to drop a dime on his former employer. Even in it, a rosy tint lingers around the image of Mr. Bush himself. McClellan calls him “sincere,” and displaces blame onto Rove...
...rsson, CEO of Toyota Iceland, says that the depreciated krona raised the price of imported cars by 25% in just a matter of weeks, bringing his booming sales to a standstill. He now predicts year-on-year revenues will end 30% lower. But Steindórsson doesn't blame the government or Iceland's banks. "The crisis didn't start in Iceland - it started in the U.S.," he says. As he sees it, the international dimension of the credit crunch means that Iceland's hands are essentially tied. "We can't move the prices on Wall Street...
...event set off waves of accusations and recriminations. Convinced that the Sons of Iraq were to blame for lax security, if not for active participation in the plot, Captain Sertani's men fanned out immediately after the blast, roughing up Sons of Iraq members and hauling several into hours of custody. This, Haji Kaadam insisted to the American colonel, was an affront. "If there is an IED or an armed attack, that is our responsibility," he says. "But a lone woman? That is out of our hands. Yet the Iraqi Army came down here and began hitting our people, blaming...