Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sorority member who resides near the Phi Gamma Delta house said that Krueger was at least partially to blame for his condition...
...didn't Lott and Gingrich spread the blame by giving up Barbour? After all, he makes big bucks--$50,000 a month--fronting for the industry. But fingering Barbour would force the two leaders to choose between pleading stupidity (We were tricked into it) or venality. And neither Lott nor Gingrich is inclined to annoy tobacco's top ambassador in Washington, who controls thousands if not millions of dollars in political contributions. In the past 18 months, Republicans have pocketed $1.9 million from tobacco. (Democrats got $300,000.) Barbour makes Roger Tamraz, the star of last week's campaign-finance...
Indeed, last week's 45-7 thrashing of Columbia has set high expectations for Harvard. When the opposing team's coach sighs after the defeat that "the best thing is that nobody died," who can blame the Harvard faithful for licking their chops in anticipation of the rest of the season...
Wall Street's gurus are, of course, on the case. What can the price swings mean? Surprisingly, a crowd that has no trouble gleaning significance every time Alan Greenspan sniffles is coming up short on the price-volatility question. (Maybe they'll blame El Nino.) Some suspect that rising volatility signals a market about to run out of gas, but then they run out of evidence. Others conclude that this is a random event with no meaning...
...corps, taking a job as a light-news correspondent on NBC's Today show, for which he reported directly from the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York. In a truly paradoxical move, Spencer appeared on the scandal-mongering, syndicated American tabloid show Inside Edition in 1994 to blame the press for the breakup of his sister's marriage and to deem the British media, in particular, "the biggest cancer in society today." Well, perhaps not the biggest. That same year he posed happily for a lengthy cover story in Britain's Hello! magazine with his newborn...