Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Force really wanted someone to blame for Lowry's crash, it could have gone back and figured out why no one had done anything following the earlier, identical mistakes. "Cross-connecting the rods is an easy mistake to make," an Air Force report warned after the 1986 foul-up. "We ought to fix it so they can't be connected wrong," a second said. The Air Force ignored that recommendation and even failed to warn its mechanics of the danger...
...Huang & Co. hounded him Down Under, Clinton and his aides were partly to blame. Back home, White House officials issued clarifications that came out in dribs and drabs. There were two patterns in the disclosures. First, the contacts between Clinton, Huang and Riady were more numerous and substantive than previously acknowledged. Second, whatever the White House said about the flap before the election may no longer be operative...
ValuJet maintenance chief David Gentry said his company accepted blame, but he insisted that it was SabreTech's job to equip the canisters with safety caps and pack the shipment properly. Failure to prevent this incompetence was laid to inspectors for the FAA, who complained that overwork and understaffing had made it tough to oversee the fast-growing ValuJet. Yet an FAA manager said he called for a review of ValuJet's authorization to fly three months before Flight 592 plunged into the Everglades shortly after taking off from Miami. The manager, John Tutora, said his report was ignored...
Many soldiers interviewed at Aberdeen and Fort Leonard Wood wonder if the attraction between a recruit and a drill sergeant sometimes flows both ways--if, that is, some of the young women are to blame--but Army officials, at least publicly, reject this argument. "Who's the vulnerable party?" asks Major Ralph Palmiero, executive officer of the 2nd Battalion 47th Infantry Division at Fort Leonard Wood. "A new private who is so scared and vulnerable, who doesn't understand the Army? Or a drill sergeant, who definitely knows better?" Now that the military has decided to ask, it is likely...
Texaco's shareholders, though, deserve to share the blame with corporate managers for the poisonous atmosphere at the company. Even before the appalling transcripts surfaced, Texaco's history of discrimination was not exactly a secret. The company has forked out millions in legal fees to defend itself in a series of well-publicized cases brought by minorities and women. In 1991, for example, a California jury awarded $17.6 million in compensatory and punitive damages to Janella Sue Martin, who sued after Texaco denied her a promotion and gave the job to a man. The trial judge set aside the verdict...