Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blame inevitably finds its way to Gore, whose hand many see in virtually everything the FCC does. Its past chairman, Reed Hundt, goes back so far with Gore that the two of them saw the Beatles' first U.S. concert together. And Gore hand-picked its current chairman, William Kennard. Gore is also closely linked to the inner workings of the industry, where several of his former aides have found lucrative and powerful positions. Complains Louisiana Republican Billy Tauzin, chairman of the House telecommunications subcommittee: "The FCC is an independent regulatory authority, yet we continue to see the Vice President exercising...
That dam may have started to crack. While the U.S. banking industry pocketed record earnings last year, Morgan's fell 7%, to $1.46 billion. Derivatives are partly to blame. Morgan last year declared it had $659 million in nonperforming assets, 90% of which were defaults from Asian derivative counterparties. Among the defaulters were three South Korean companies, led by SK Securities, which early this year refused to pay $490 million that Morgan claims it is owed...
...many charms of the electro-rock band Garbage is the group's expectations-lowering name. After all, if you buy a ticket to a movie called Big-Budget Bomb or vote for, say, a gubernatorial candidate named Mr. Lecherous Promise-Breaker, you've got no one to blame but yourself if things turn...
...blame that on the rodents. They are bred to spend their brief lives (about two years) as test subjects--a job they do pretty well. "As mammals with physical systems somewhat like our own, they give us a relatively quick, inexpensive way of getting at the causes of disease and possible therapies," says Dr. Kenneth Paigen, director of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, the world's most famous mouse-breeding facility. Each year the lab ships out some 2 million mice from more than 1,700 stocks, including so-called designer mice with genes added or deleted...
...recent Crimson staff editorial ("A College Above All," April 29) suggests that undergraduate education suffers from time spent by faculty with graduate students. While I certainly share the concerns about the educational experience at Harvard College, this blame is misplaced...