Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being a part of the modern world, we are only eight years old. I don't want to be a monarch who never gives up the burden and doesn't share it. The monarch who carries all the burden in the end also carries all the blame...
...ominous inconvenience of the gasoline lines has aroused combinations of scapegoating and soul searching. While many Americans blame the oil companies, others regard American energy habits as a symptom of fundamental national weakness. There is an unhappy plausibility in the underlying premise that Americans have drifted into a condition of spoiled purposelessness...
There are at least two angles of reasoning. One holds that it is the American people themselves who are to blame for the energy crisis. "Several generations of us have been spoiled crazy," says Brandeis University Sociologist Marshall Sklare. "Having the highest standard of living in the world has made us vulnerable. In times of crisis, reactions are almost childlike. People want their candy. The need to modify lives evokes anger...
Congratulations for explaining the way the Big Oil Game [May 7] is played. It's easy to blame the companies, but it's also a gross injustice. Only when people understand this incredibly complex situation will they realize the energy crisis is for real, and not a plot of the oil companies. The Federal Government is the worst offender in spreading the myth that big oil companies are ripping off the public...
...Stability have said for weeks that they have been under orders to find someone-anyone-who is breaking the guidelines. Notes Jack Carlson, chief economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The wage and price control program has been a failure, and they're looking for someone to blame...