Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-standing Celtic fan (I stayed up late at night while in grade school to watch the Celts beat the Lakers in the late fifties and early sixties), I enjoyed reading your article on the demise of the Cs. However, Auerbach is not the culprit. He is the victim...
Harvard's first tally again was set up by strong forechecking in the Bulldog zone. Doug Sproule was the culprit this time, grabbing the suddenly loose puck and getting it to his good buddy Craig Adams, who beat Westlund...
Shall the culprit remain nameless? Nosirree--why, it's Professor Steven J. Gould and the class is Science B-16. He's decided to abandon the perfectly reasonable system of unfairness to a small minority and extend the privilege to the entire class...
...Pathfinder's long journey to the red planet must begin, like any other, with a single step. For NASA scientists, that first step was delayed again early Tuesday morning as Pathfinder's scheduled launch was scrubbed again for the second time in as many days. The weather, Monday's culprit, was near-perfect; this time a computer on the ground was to blame, failing with just over a minute remaining in the countdown. A backup computer also would not work, leading officials to suspect a software problem. NASA scientists say they must launch the $196M Pathfinder in December in order...
...however, it has become clear that not all cases of exhaustion can be cured with rest. With CFS, fatigue continues for months or years, along with flulike symptoms of joint pain, headaches and muddled thinking. The cause of CFS still eludes doctors, but studies show that sometimes the culprit may be low blood pressure. In such cases, when CFS patients are given medications to stabilize their blood pressure, their symptoms subside...