Word: culprit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...obvious culprit is the nature of the record keeping itself. Half of the Currier records would not be admissible in court, simply because some of the pencil-and-paper accounting fails to indicate where money had been paid. The choice to embezzle is always a crime, but crimes are easy to commit when there is little chance of detection...
...next five months, Kennedy and Kassebaum tracked down a number of conservative suspects, among them Oklahoma's Don Nickles, Arizona's John Kyl, North Carolina's Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth, and majority whip Trent Lott. But each potential culprit denied he was the one standing in the way of the bill--at that moment, at least. The hold, it seems, was rolling from requester to anonymous requester. Behind it all, Kennedy and Kassebaum believed, was the Health Insurance Association of America, which has argued that the bill will be far more expensive than advertised. The association also fears that...
Johnson said that the system the Harvard police uses to produce composites has been very successful in the past. "Often when we make an arrest we find that there's a remarkable resemblance between the culprit and the composite," he said...
While some economists and politicians may argue that cultural factors, such as the American predilection for spending, are responsible for America's anemic rate of investment, the evidence suggests that the real culprit is the budget deficit...
Then there was poor Tagliabue, who explained to the Senators that while there were a number of reasons for the rash of franchise shifts, the main culprit was the 1982 court decision allowing the Raiders to move from Oakland to Los Angeles. "Right now," said Tagliabue, "antitrust law, as it applies to internal commitments among members of sports leagues, is being interpreted in a way that is ripping leagues apart." When the Senators were through with him, Tagliabue subjected himself to the entreaties of the media, most of which went like this: "Commissioner, what do you say to the people...