Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Golden family disagree. They blame Mitchell for dragging Andrew into a vengeful plot that culminated in Tuesday?s shooting at the Arkansas school. The Johnson family blame television. Neither can quite connect the children who loved bowling, computer games and music with the camouflaged riflemen who hid in the woods and then gunned down four of their classmates and one of their teachers in cold blood...
...turn away children or let staff go. Parents who tried to contact Maximus encountered what a state administrator called "telephone-system collapse." With its contract in jeopardy, Maximus CEO David Mastran went into crisis mode, nearly tripling the project's staff and showing up in Connecticut himself. The blame lies partly with the state for not anticipating how quickly welfare recipients would find work and need child care, says company spokesman Kevin Geddings. "But we should have taken a much closer look," he says. "We've learned a lot from this...
Allergies in February? Record pollen counts in March? Blame it on--what else?--El Nino, the warm patch of Pacific water that has played havoc with the world's weather for months. Thanks to an extremely mild winter, trees across much of the U.S.--including maple, alder, cottonwood and oak--are budding two to three weeks early, filling the air with their irritating pollen. Add torrential rains, which have produced bumper crops of wildflowers and grasses in the Southeast, along the Gulf Coast and in Southern California, and you have the makings of what some experts predict will...
...politicians, lawyers and media people blame the function of a special prosecutor for the current presidential scandal [CLINTON'S CRISES, March 2]. The special prosecutor's role is to determine the truth, with no interference from any person, not even the President. Elected representatives, Bill Clinton and every other American ought to proclaim, "Regardless of the outcome, we have the best system in the world." DON BRANDON Sherwood Park, Alta...
These themes of black self-hatred appear multiple times in the exhibit, yet never establishing a clear victim and persecutor. This is one of the central strengths of the exhibit. While it tackles such complex and political topics as black assimilation, it never devolves into a narrative of either blame or exoneration. Rather, Walker explores the inter-connection between white cruelty and black mimicry of whites, between white fetishistic desire of the black female and black female self-annihilation. The ingenuity of Walker's work is that, not only does she represent these cultural phenomena, but she examines how they...