Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hanson the Independent blamed Australia's economic woes on Asian immigration and aboriginal welfare-dependence. It was "their" fault for "our" problems. And her views found some resonance among those who had lost jobs and saw immigration as an easy and obvious culprit, or those who saw their own hardship and compared it to so-called "aboriginal privilege." But once Hanson became One Nation, running candidates in both the House of Representatives and Senate, things began to go awry. Her policy proposals became more and more incredible, until her positive economic program was to institute a 2 percent flat income...
...biggest culprit in the decline in workers is the College's new financial aid program...
...time, into living bacterial cells. When the team found cells making more amyloid protein than might have been expected, it narrowed the strings to 20 genes and repeated the process. Finally, the Amgen team zeroed in on the single gene responsible for producing the extra amyloid. Having found the culprit, the researchers went on to "grow" the enzyme in their little bacterial factories and figure out exactly how it did its cutting...
...effectively. He also contended that reducing insulin levels could help prevent many diet- and weight-related diseases, including high cholesterol, hypertension and diabetes. Atkins is a cardiologist too, but he is selling books. This physician, with no vested interest, made it clearer to me that carbohydrates are often the culprit. Certainly the majority of my overweight patients are carbohydrate junkies...
...jumped out of bed and ran to his door, only to find the culprit gone and the various flyers from his door strewn all over the floor...