Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amato much moved by critics like Rolf Bloch, the main spokesman for Switzerland's 18,000 Jews. "We are Jews in a Swiss way," says Bloch. "We don't want to blame all the Swiss or put them under assault." A Jewish lawyer in Zurich representing 20 people seeking information on wartime accounts considers D'Amato's and Bronfman's tactics counterproductive. "So aggressive, so hostile," he says. "This banging on the head is wrong, and it has provoked reaction. Now we are seeing signs of anti-Semitism in Switzerland...
...Blame it on deregulation. The free-for-all in the skies that began in 1978 democratized travel and lowered fares--that's the good part. The bad part is that the industry has become a commodity business that serves millions of passengers a year but treats them like pork bellies. "Service appears to be declining over time," says Steven Casley, principal at Back Associates, an aviation consultancy in Stamford, Connecticut. "What's driving that is deregulation: cost cutting, fewer employees, fewer amenities and fewer services...
...staff errs in making a specious states' rights argument. While it is right to call for the legalization of marijuana for medical uses, it is far from appropriate to blame the executive branch of the federal government for essentially doing its job--upholding...
...downsizing is understandable. So is Cose's unexceptionable prescription for a race neutrality ("We must stop playing the blame game...We must do a better job at leveling the playing field...We must become serious about fighting discrimination...We must seize opportunities for interracial collaboration," etc.). But the motivational generalities are a letdown after an otherwise well-considered exploration of a profoundly complex issue...
...Arwady, who is a Crimson editor, goes beyond the usual gripes about the health services and quickly points out that she doesn't blame UHS for the misdiagnosis...