Word: blamed
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...reference to Ms. Dunlop's letter (see left), I should like to be absolutely clear that I do not blame the victim of the Tuesday incident for what happened to her. My immediate reaction upon learning of the assault was of concern for the victim and outrage towards the assailant. The rhetorical question quoted in the article-not a response given in an interview, but one sentence selected from many things I and others said during an extended discussion of safety in a meeting of the Committee on House Life--was meant precisely to state that I did not know...
Many first-years blame the scatter system, which is currently being used only in Annenberg, for the long lines frequently encountered in the new dining hall...
...House and congressional leaders got within a few philosophical inches of agreeing to roughly this much in spending cuts, enough to balance the budget over seven years. Why are Republicans now exaggerating these differences, letting go a Big Deal, which would by any measure be a huge achievement? Some blame the freshmen, who are said to prefer no deal to a "bad" deal. Yet one freshman admits their phalanx is in disarray, anxious over tough Medicare votes they've cast with nothing as yet to show for them. They huddled last Saturday to ponder which outcome best serves their principles...
...Some medical facilities also fear that they will be put in the role of inquisitor, forced to ask girls who seek pregnancy services about the identity of the partner. And Jeannie Rosoff, president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, cautions that when it comes to sex, things like blame tend to get a little murky. "You cannot automatically condemn the man," she says. "The girl could have lied about her age. You really don't know what happens in those transactions...
...admit she lied about a transaction that enabled her to contribute what she believed to be personal funds to her campaign, nor was she "a knowing beneficiary of the con artist--who knows an easy mark is someone with a smidgen of larceny in her heart." By blaming Waldholtz, Carlson cruelly perpetuates a "blame the victim" mentality to explain the blatantly deceptive actions of the Representative's estranged husband and former campaign treasurer, Joe Waldholtz. For years, rape victims were blamed because they left a window open or went out alone. Fortunately, most of us know that...