Word: blamed
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...bulletin board and searched for any mention of the program's special nature. I had assumed that SEO stood for Student Employment Office (it actually refers to Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, an organization based in New York), and upon re-examination saw no reason to blame myself for the evening's embarrassment...
...blame them after all its difficult to take at face value a person who speaks in broad terms of "bringing the university to its Knees." Its difficult not to chuckle at a person who allows himself to be wheeled around campus in a shopping cart as "followers" sing songs of praise. Its difficult not to tune out to someone who deadpanned at Thursday's sometime tense presidential debate " I don't propose to kill anybody - but people act when they are afraid...
...Surgeon General got involved. But I was born in the '70s and inhaled in the '90s. By then, I knew the implications and the potential repercussions. I heard Nancy Reagan tell me to "just say no," but I eagerly said yes. Unlike my parents' generation, I can't blame my experimentation on a decade...
...believe we have to instill a great deal of joy and confidence in our children before they get to be teenagers in order to protect them through those hard years. Parents tend to blame themselves for things that are culture-wide. The difference between moderate experimentation and catastrophic drug taking is vast. We should not get desperately alarmed about mild social experimentation. But we should get desperately alarmed about the child who is compelled to use drugs. The flat rules like "Just say no" are easy to pronounce but hard to enforce. It's so easy to make that kind...
...with a single step. For NASA scientists, that first step was delayed again early Tuesday morning as Pathfinder's scheduled launch was scrubbed again for the second time in as many days. The weather, Monday's culprit, was near-perfect; this time a computer on the ground was to blame, failing with just over a minute remaining in the countdown. A backup computer also would not work, leading officials to suspect a software problem. NASA scientists say they must launch the $196M Pathfinder in December in order to intercept Mars' orbit or wait two years for another chance...