Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killing harmless deer isn't bad enough, now the "animals" that call themselves hunters have to put the blame on their wives: "Deer season was the only chance each year of really getting free of feminine domestication [Jan. 15]." If they want to be "free" and out in nature, why don't they mow their lawns...
...sheer immensity of the amount may be partly to blame. Bo Cutter, the man from the Office of Management and Budget who directs the preparation of the budget, has made it a point to remind his staff repeatedly that a million dollars is a lot of money. In the hundreds-of-billions environment, a million dollars can be lost like a rolling penny heading for a sewer grate. Cutter has had his staff calculate some other reminders: a million dollars' worth of quarters stands almost as high as Mount Everest; the number of stacked quarters in this year...
...this is an unnerving little film, a very fine first feature which does more than simply show promise. The few flaws are annoying but not fatal. Dalen and his crew would be better off in the future not to go for the upbeat ending, but it's tough to blame them--everybody's got bills...
...that the government has begun cracking down (it has burned more than 2,000 tons of marijuana since autumn), it is not inclined to be too harsh on the farmers. Says José Miguel Garavito, the swashbuckling operations officer of the Attorney General's antidrug unit: "It is hard to blame a farmer who is growing corn and earning a few pesos for switching when he seen his neighbors working no harder to grow marijuana and earning lots of pesos. The traffickers come in, give them the seeds and then collect the crop...
That is one of the most durable and emotional questions in American political debate. As inflation has soared close to double-digit rates, with no war or speculative boom or oil shortage to blame it on, deficit spending has come to be viewed as the fiscal mortal sin leading inexorably to inflationary damnation. The legislatures of 22 states have called for a constitutional amendment that would require a balanced budget every year. Amendment or not, that would be impossible, since no Administration could predict future revenues and expenditures accurately enough. It is also undesirable. There are circumstances in which...