Word: blamelessness
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Diminished by Self-Discipline. Although industry is far from blameless, many of the nation's gravest trade ailments have been concocted in Washington. The trouble consists of federal deficits, easy tolerance of wage increases that outstrip rising productivity, and the pursuit of economic growth at the expense of stable prices. Even so, the U.S. still has the world's largest and most efficient economy, along with an impressive lead in finance, marketing and much technology. If the nation has the self-discipline to bring its inflation-bent economy under control, the worst of its difficulties with foreign competition...
...year reasons. Public opinion, expressed in letters, telegrams, phone calls and editorials, overwhelmingly supported Lindsay's basic argument that an illegal public strike cannot be tolerated lest more strikes be encouraged and that Rockefeller's takeover scheme violated the tradition of home rule. Lindsay was not exactly blameless. He had not made adequate advance preparations for the strike, and his abrupt demand that Rockefeller mobilize the National Guard to collect the garbage presented serious problems.-But the Lindsay position, based on sound principle, had the public relations virtue of offering dramatic resistance to a public menace...
...states* that have "comparative negligence" laws, a victim who is partly responsible for a crash can recover a proportionate percentage of his losses. In the other 44 states, unless the victim can prove that the policyholder was entirely at fault-and that he himself was utterly blameless-the company need not pay him a cent. Indeed, the worse the accident-a ten-car chain collision, for example-the more difficult it usually is to pin sole blame on one driver and reimburse anyone. If a driver has a heart attack and his car mounts a curb, hitting ten pedestrians...
...time of the prior conviction is also important. If it took place many years before and was followed "by a legally blameless life," it "should generally be excluded on the ground of remoteness." The court also felt that previous convictions on the same charge "should be admitted sparingly," with perhaps only one allowed. Finally, the court noted, even if the convictions are otherwise appropriate to impeach credibility, the trial judge may still bar them-if the defendant's testimony is so important that he should not be deterred from giving it by fear that his convictions will be offered...
...home, thus adding one more tragedy to the incredible series befalling the Skakel and Kennedy families. Her husband, George Skakel Jr., was killed last September in the crash of a light plane; his parents met a similar death in 1955; her daughter Kathleen, 17, was involved but later found blameless in the death of a neighbor's seven-year-old daughter last December, when the child fell from a car Kathleen was driving; her son Mark, 13, is still hospitalized with serious injuries suffered last month while playing with explosives...