Word: blame
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...class looked up from their various screens only when a phrase was prefaced with the warning, “This might be on the midterm.” It looked like in this class, at least in this lecture, intellectualism was dead. But I don’t blame the people—I blame the technology...
...forms of deception to extract information or confessions. "You arrest two suspects - you tell them, separately, that the first one to talk gets a deal," he says. "Every police detective in the U.S. knows this." Another common technique used by cops is to allow a suspect to shift the blame for his crime to something or someone else. "You find out that a suspected child molester was himself molested as a child, and you say, 'It's O.K. We understand why you did it,' " says Alexander. Cops also learn how to take a statement made by one suspect...
...TIME's "25 People to Blame for the Financial Collapse...
...people to blame for the financial crisis...
While many domestic manufacturers increasingly rely on undocumented workers who earn minimum wage and receive no benefits, Patrick credits his company's environmentally friendly business practices, above-average pay and good employee benefits for making the firm more, not less, competitive. And he lays most of the blame for the decimated manufacturing industry on an uneven playing field with China. "The [previous] Administration refused to make China play by the rules," he says. "If China stops the illegal subsidies they're giving their industries and does something to offset the currency manipulation, we're good...