Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ironic that AT&T should wear the black hat. In its history, AT&T and the telephone Bells were as family friendly and progressive as the New Deal. Telephone families often ran three generations deep. You couldn't blame them for howling; they knew a good thing was ending. Even today AT&T offers a menu of programs that would make any worker's wish list, such as child- and elder-care resource referral services, leaves of absence for parents of newborns and the newly adopted, as well as time off for family care...
...didn't want him in a youth home with murderers and rapists." Had she sought counseling for Alex? "I couldn't force him to go," Susan said. "I tried to talk him into going, and he refused." Did she feel responsibility for Alex's crimes? "I feel partly to blame," she allowed. "But I do not feel as though I was negligent as a mother...
...second act things pick up a little and things move along quickly. Conrad begins to realize that other people have problems, too, and that he is not always to blame for his own. The choir director, played by Orin Johnson, lightens up his scenes. The music, while in the same style as the first act, does manage to throw in a few songs that aren't depressing, such as when Conrad asks out Jeanine Pratt (Sarah Baskin) in the song "I Have A Little Question." "It doesn't have to be a real date. We could fake it," he sings...
...want to blame Big Oil. It has given us precious little to work with in the past couple of years, save the occasional assault on the environment. Indeed, the price of oil and gas just kept falling, as did industry profits. But Big Oil, the profitmongering version we love to lambaste, is back in form, courtesy of gasoline prices rising geyser-like to more than $2 per gal. in some places. "Gasoline prices are outrageous; my bill has gone up about $20 a month," complains Debra Davis, a San Francisco school-district employee, as she stares in dismay at prices...
Their obsolescence is being planned not just because they are old, but also because their builders didn't have the foresight to provide them with club seating, luxury boxes and Hard Rock Cafes. It would be easy to blame the baseball owners for being greedy, and make no mistake, they are. But their co-conspirators and enablers are legion: politicians, corporations, economists, fans, journalists. Sportswriters who once thought the designated hitter was the end of civilization now dismiss the old ball parks as inconvenient anachronisms. Tiger Stadium? "Bad neighborhood," say my brethren. Fenway Park? "Hey, it's a sardine...