Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although he is still hiring, he says he doesn't blame companies who are taking the market downturn seriously and are in a hiring freeze...
...wary. Playing in the mud is a messy game for everybody. Starr's report is likely to mean a new cycle of smutty particulars to be worked over endlessly by the news-entertainment continuum. A public already sick to death of unlaundered dresses and dirty jokes about cigars could blame Republicans for starting and prolonging the whole thing even as citizens turn away in disgust from the President himself...
...stocks spread among several industries. Why, then, does the average stock mutual fund hold 134 companies? It's as confounding as the frenetic trading that goes on in many funds--even though the very fund managers triggering the trades preach patience to their investors. Lay the blame on pressure for short-term results, if you like. But these paradoxes seem idiotic to me and probably help explain why most funds fail to keep pace with the market. They don't practice selectivity and patience...
...lied." He said, "I misled people." Instead of asking forgiveness for betraying his wife and daughter, his staff, his Cabinet and his constituency, he fought back at the independent counsel, Kenneth W. Starr, devoting the second half of the speech to an angry attack, shifting the blame...
...trained nurses; he left the Followers in 1981, after deciding to seek medical help for a back injury. Briggs supports the Oregon exemption-repeal drive, but despite being shunned by his former community, he bears no discernible rancor. "They're still believing in a faith, so there's no blame for them," he says. "Their children died, and they allowed it to happen because of a belief that they still have. That takes away the blame. It's only when you no longer have that belief that all the sudden it comes to you: How could I ever have done...