Word: blame
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...returned an average annual 11.8%, but the typical stock-fund investor earned only 4.3%, according to a study by research firm Dalbar. Fund fees play a role in that gap. But investors' errant attempts to move in and out of stocks at lows and highs are mostly to blame...
When authors ponder globalization in books like Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat, they usually pay scant attention to Latin America beyond the North American Free Trade Agreement. Who can blame them? Compared with the record growth of and foreign investment pouring into the emerging markets of Asia and Eastern Europe, Latin America still looks globally noncompetitive...
...higher--was showing unmistakable signs of a slowdown. In February it plummeted to just 6.5%, compared with nearly 20% growth expected by economists. Exporters suffered major disruptions from power outages and transportation delays caused by that month's heavy snowstorms, but sluggish U.S. demand was also to blame. The value of U.S.-bound goods showed a rare year-over-year decline that month...
...long after they’ve fizzled. The difference between what you see and what you don’t is often as much about personal politics as it is about those nebulous Nielsen numbers. Yet, whatever the actual reason for cancellation may be, networks are always keen to blame viewers’ fickle tastes for their shows’ failings—never minding that they openly scorned the viewers in the first place. It’s probably the excuse they offered to the “Jezebel James” cast and crew before they cut them...
...incredibly fast for incredibly long distances—was his ability to play on the desires of everyone around him; he “made himself into a screen on which people could project their hopes and dreams.” To what extent does Hogue deserve the blame and to what extent the willingness of society to believe his lies?Not escaping from this apportioning of blame is the Princeton application committee. Samuels is highly skeptical of the competence of application and admissions process of Ivy League universities. Flipping through Hogue’s falsified application, Samuels writes...