Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is no blame; it was no one's fault," Petruccelli said. "We just kept missing...
...himself to the Jewish community in his ejection of Palestinian Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat from a social gathering of world leaders at Lincoln Center last Monday. The intimation is that he sold his office for a quick hit, a cheap thrill and great pay. Of course, who can blame him? The Jews control all the votes, and all the money, and the national media, so it obviously made a great deal of sense to pander to them...
...really my fault, the President explained. Clinton managed to blame the Republicans, even though they had voted unanimously against the budget plan, as well as members of his own party, even though he nearly twisted arms out of sockets to get their support. It was because the G.O.P. leaders refused to help him pass a leaner budget plan, Clinton suggested, that he was forced to make a deal with profligate Democrats to win the votes he needed...
...plan through Congress, he told the corporate chieftains, he had to "raise your taxes more and cut spending less than I wanted to, which made a lot of you furious." He got away with it that time, taking credit for pushing through a brave budget without taking the blame for the very ingredients that made it brave in the first place. But sooner or later, he was bound to be cited for a moving violation. "We missed it," admitted a senior White House official, after Clinton went even further in Houston. "We should have caught it, but we didn...
...remember it as the trial of the century, but not as one that split America. If America is divided, O.J. is not to blame. We are." MARTINE E. DUNPHY New York City HOW BLIND AMERICA HAS BECOME. THE O.J. Simpson trial was not about race and racial division in the U.S. [COVER STORIES, Oct. 9]. It was deeper than that: it was about poverty vs. wealth. The struggle of classes is the foundation of all religious, economic and political systems, and the Simpson trial only reflects the superficiality of the times. It's the same old struggle: the rich...