Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...benefit package negotiated last month, warned that other price changes would be coming from time to time. Aiming a lance at the White House, the company said it was "almost, but not quite universally recognized" that steel prices do not cause inflation, insisted that the cost-of-living culprit lay elsewhere. One place: labor costs, which have risen some 25% over the past ten years, while steel prices have gone up only...
...during the testing process, or 2) someone not connected with the stable gave Dancer's Image an extra dose of Butazolidin. "Someone," said Fuller darkly, "may have gotten to the horse." He demanded an investigation and promised a "large financial reward" for information leading to such a culprit...
...Certificate. Many other large brokerage houses are w making-or planning to make-similar strides, but none of them If! deals with the worst culprit in the back-office mess: the stock certificate itself. Most transactions call for the physical transfer of stock certificates among firms or customers. Yet at present, certificates cannot be processed by machine; they are counted, sorted, alphabetized and routed as they always have been-by hand...
Although Grania is the chief culprit, the three of them bark and bite at one other all night in a manner not unlike the Tyrones in Long Day's Journey into Night. Lady Gregory's penchant for folk dialect and fairly elaborate imagery prevent the encounters from being quite so acerbic, and give the characters a sort of distance. There's not an awful lot you can do with only two or three characters on stage, and director John Pym settles for movement that is simple and unobtrusive...
...Custer Died for Your Sins." Subliminal Triumph. Everywhere on Wakefield's journey, the organization men-whom he may over-villainize-seemed to be winning. Even what is apparently spontaneous turns out to be organized-subliminally. Last summer's ghetto riots, for instance. Black Power was not the culprit. As Vice President Humphrey told Wakefield: "The looters took the TVs or the stoves or whatever had been best promoted. Why, the way people selected those things they looted was the greatest triumph of advertising the world has ever seen...