Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virus--known as HTLV-1--takes control and infects blood cells. They believe that a similar process is at work when HTLV-3 viruses--which is believed to be the cause of AIDS--attack cells. And they think that some genetic material in this family of viruses is the culprit...
...fault," she said. "She was trying to pass Budd on the inside and spiked Zola's Achilles. Zola couldn't help anything because she couldn't see in the back of her head." Instantly, ABC Commentator Marty Liquori thought Budd's inexperience was the culprit, but he changed his mind the next day: "Both runners could have done something to avoid it. Both aren't blameless. Neither is guilty...
...drink. According to a report released last week by the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, bourbon, America's beloved corn squeezings, contains female-type sex hormones that may be responsible for the "feminized" appearance-enlarged breasts and beardless faces-of some alcoholic men. The culprit, wrote Judith Gavaler, a Medical Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, may be phytoes- trogen, a female-type hormone found in corn...
...both sides the issue of culpability is as important as compensation, and that question still lingers. The veterans and chemical companies both point the finger at Washington. "The real culprit here is the Federal Government," said a lawyer involved in the case. "The companies were told to make the Agent Orange at Government specifications. A lot of this was really misdirected." Attempts by the veterans to sue the military have thus far been blocked by a 1950 decision, Feres vs. United States, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Government cannot be held liable for injuries that...
What seems to be getting through is the notion that the city's self-conscious neighborhood orientation is the real culprit. "Community groups have begun to talk to each other, they have crossed neighborhood lines, which is an enormous transition for a city like Boston that was built on neighborhoods," White says. The city has changed not because of say lecturing from the papers of political leaders running for or away from the issue," he adds...