Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the study carrels in which we spend January and May are lonelier than coffins, that the competitiveness here is a posture whose graceless stiffness no conversation with a tutor could soften. We have all become hunchbacks before our time and we have only ourselves and each other to blame for the burden, but that does not make it any less real. We know these things, we know that Harvard is sick and, not for the first time, turning to UHS and Harvard's other vaunted, empty "resources" isn't going to do much good. --Jennifer L. Hanson...
...Helsinki Federation. Even the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which will oversee the vote, concluded in a private "benchmark paper" that the minimal requirements set down in Dayton do not exist; there is no freedom of movement, no freedom of expression, no freedom of association. The blame for much of that lies directly with Karadzic, who has challenged or rejected every civilian provision of the Dayton pact...
Washington bears some of the blame, however. Having delegated civilian implementation of Dayton to Bildt, the Americans have been unwilling even to imply that NATO's might stood behind the diplomat's efforts. "At least move some equipment around," said an official from Bildt's office, arguing that just a meeting between the diplomat and high NATO officials last week was enough to exact conciliatory talk from the Pale leadership...
...have-nots rounded out the chorus of distress. By day's end Yeltsin appeared tired and beaten. He seemed to have been unaware of the passion of discontent outside Moscow, a city about as representative of Russia as New York is of America. Yeltsin himself is partly to blame for being so out of touch. Suffering from an apparently serious heart ailment, the man many Russians liken to a modern-day czar has for the past two years been a virtual Kremlin recluse. And his inner circle of aides, forever jockeying for position, seem to have concluded long ago that...
...Yeltsin turned to addressing some problems head on--by blaming others for them. In Russia especially, this is a traditional dodge. Since the czar is always right, the argument goes, any difficulties that arise are the result of unscrupulous or stupid subordinates who undermine him. Take, for example, the failure of the government to pay its civil servants for months at a time. A $10 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund has helped Yeltsin clean up some of the arrears, but the issue remains contentious. The blame for this shameful performance, the President zestily explains in a stump-speech...