Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possible to blame my upbringing for my inability to appreciate the Nagano Games. While I'm sure that the Finns and Swiss care...
...more than 20 counties; Western ski resorts are suffering from a lack of snow and the Northeast is experiencing one of its most pleasant winters in recent memory (today's Nor'Easter notwithstanding). If El Niño could be explained and understood, it would be possible to blame or praise it; nonetheless, most meteorologists in the country as well as most civilians are using El Niño as their justification for current trends in the weather and anything else--wherever or whatever they happen...
...Perhaps your weather is unusually sunny and warm. Or maybe the cloud hanging over your head is derived from a massive storm system that is dumping unusually large amounts of rain or snow on your region. Whatever the case," notes the CNN Interactive weather website, "you can likely blame El Ni?...
...physical maladies strike their victims randomly. We would hardly think to accuse cancer patients, for example, of being punished for undisclosed crimes. But as with all behavior-related preventable diseases, some unexpressed part of our psyche--and it is crucial that it remain unexpressed--feels a need to assign blame. We could always blame the University's administration (after all, this is the editorial page) for its failure to design workstations conducive to our health, but when we consider the fact that most students use their own computing equipment, this accusation holds little weight. It would be satisfying to point...
...veteran EA-6B pilot told TIME he was in no rush to blame his colleagues. The plane, he says, is complicated to fly and, unlike some military aircraft, has no automatic terrain-following features. On a low-level run, the plane is flying at nearly 500 m.p.h. "At that speed," he notes, "after a minute you're six miles off course." By week's end Italian authorities were insisting the plane was up to six miles outside the approved flight corridor. Marine officials agree the plane was too low, and some wonder if it was trying to fly under...