Word: blame
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...claim that B of A shareholders have not done too badly since the Merrill troubles were disclosed. Since the first of the year, the firm's stock has done nearly as well as Wells Fargo's (WFC) and much better than Citigroup's (C). (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...ordered the slaughter of the country's 300,000 pigs, even though no cases have been reported there - is easy to pin on the eponymous animal from which it emerged, but the fact is, the current epidemic is little more than an accident of evolution. If pigs are to blame, so too are birds and humans. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...
...fairly blame the pigs (indeed, the CDC has officially stopped calling the virus "swine flu," opting instead for the more hog-friendly 2009 H1N1 flu), can we blame Mexico? That charge doesn't stick either. Decades ago, numerous countries came together to develop the Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN), which allows epidemiological teams to spot new flu viruses as soon as they emerge and get vaccines ready in time. But the GISN only tracks human flu, meaning animal flu can slip by undetected. What's more, pigs that carry influenza tend not to die en masse the way flocks...
...have to pin the rap somewhere then, forget any one species or country and blame simple biology. But regardless of whence the virus came, the more salient question is, Where will it go? That's what concerns doctors as they work to stem the epidemic and make sure healthy people stay that...
...considered a last resort, after pay cuts, reduced employer contributions to retirement funds, and unpaid leave. A spokesperson for Singapore Airlines, for example, confirmed that in early April roughly a tenth of the airline's 14,000 employees had agreed to take unpaid leave. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...