Word: blamed
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...unseat Neal Knox, the NRA's controversial first vice president, in elections Tuesday. Heston hopes to counter Knox, a longtime NRA member who is working to wrest control of the group from 56-year-old president Marion Hammer and executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre. Knox and his followers blame Hammer and LaPierre for the lobby's huge drop in membership and a massive $56 million debt. If successful in his bid for control, Knox and his followers, labeled by LaPierre as "a band of militia gun devotees," could drastically change the face of the group by opposing such things...
...other areas where crucial voting (and fund-raising) groups are involved, though, Gore seems to be running a bit in front of his President. Many pundits--and in private, a fair number of U.S. officials--say Benjamin Netanyahu's government deserves most of the blame for the current Middle East impasse. Pressure to take a tougher line with Israel rose further after Clinton's disappointing meeting with Netanyahu at the White House this month. But the Israeli Prime Minister could hardly have felt much inclination to move after listening a day earlier to Gore's performance before the American Israel...
Such a season of blame is taking its toll on an agency ill equipped to handle it. The 25,000 or so employees who wrestle with heavy caseloads, bad technology, long hours and growing threats to their safety, who find purpose in the bureau motto of "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity," can handle just about anything--anything but walking down the street and having a pal from the local police department slide up in his cruiser and ask mocking questions about all the cases the FBI has screwed up and all the headlines it's made and "Hey, what's the deal...
...books; a record 2.17 billion books were sold in the U.S. last year, up about 20 million copies from the previous year and 100 million from 1993. But the action has not perked up publishers' balance sheets. Publishers (who have as many excuses for failure as alcoholic novelists do) blame high advances to authors, discounts to bookstore chains, a lack of up-and-coming big-name writers and even the nonliterary mass spectacles of last year's Olympics and elections...
...budget talks between the White House and Congress falter this week, don't be quick to blame Republican intransigence. An internal G.O.P. strategy memo prepared for House and Senate budget committee chairmen John Kasich and Pete Domenici shows Republicans were so dispirited by their showdown with Clinton last time around that they are ready to put almost everything on the table this year. Drafted in late March and obtained by TIME last week, the memo states that the G.O.P.'s "minimum requirements" for a budget deal with the President are minimal indeed: modest spending reductions, small tax cuts and "saving...