Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make clear where he differs from the incumbent President. The first came last Friday, when Dole referred to Clinton 22 times, lambasting him for his "liberal appointments" to the federal bench and promising to "appoint judges who respect the rule of law," who "understand that society is not to blame for crime, criminals...
...blame on the cereal makers. After all, they're out to make money for their shareholders, and by that measure, they've been quite successful. Kellogg has generated a 19% annual return to shareholders between 1985 and 1995, making it a far better investment than, say, Exxon or IBM. And despite the staggering price rises, only recently have consumers started to change their behavior and buy something else. As he pondered Post's move, one rival industry executive put it this way, "People are predisposed to buy the cereals they prefer. Why should we do anything...
...blame liberals for this at first: something about the term facilitator makes you think of liberals and their schoolmarm view of the world ("No running, please, no pushing, no bad talk") that leads them to eliminate sharp edges and outlaw flirtation between strangers and rearrange the playing field so that the sidelines are the goals. Liberals are in charge of the schools, and they rewrite the tests to keep the scores from dropping. Liberals run the churches, and nobody talks about sin lest it tend to make folks feel marginalized...
...course every day there are grownups who do horrible things to children. Why blame a mother and father who wanted to let their very young daughter fly back and forth across the country and have everyone fall in love with her? All right, but be careful of parents who produce and direct their children's dreams...
...There is also the effect on the mind-sets of those who organize or execute such atrocities. Every time Sinn Fein officials fail to condemn I.R.A. violence, they are implicitly asserting the right not of only the I.R.A. but also other groups to carry out such actions. Sinn Fein blames Prime Minister John Major for the breakdown of the peace process (and there is enough truth in this to make us all stop and think); Sinn Fein blames the I.R.A. for ending the cease-fire. But must not Sinn Fein itself take much of the blame for the escalating violence...