Word: culprit
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...protein. And here's where the ADC starts twisting the facts to reach wild conclusions. Allergies are frequently triggered by proteins (true); asthma is an allergic condition (true); it's been increasing draatically (true); doctors don't know the cause (true); therefore, the protein in milk must be the culprit...
History and literature is not the only culprit. Other concentrations are just as guilty of loading on classes. Too many students at this College don't have time to pursue other academic interests...
...later sermon Gomes names fear as the culprit: "Everybody is fearful, terrified of some public or private demon...It is fear not only holds us together, but keeps us from being whole." On the threshold of a new millennium, Gomes worries that this sense of fear may be particularly potent. People are anxious that "There is a limitation to improvement. Our circumstances, instead of getting better, and better, may be getting worse and worse." But with the optimism that is the preacher's hallmark, Gomes offers his congregation an inoculation: emphasis that "you are not stuck in materialistic world...
Sherlock Holmes drew out a fine case, puffing leisurely at his calabash while pondering each clue until he deduced the culprit. Detecting, in the quintessential sleuth's day, required more than an agile mind; it took time. Of course, times change. Two of fiction's newest detectives have the necessary brainpower: they're young (in their 30s) African-American professionals (a professor and a doctor). These women, however, are so upwardly mobile that they can barely pencil murder into their crammed calendars...
...blame the good folks at HSTO for our rates, which are marginally higher than the best deals available. The real culprit is MCI, Harvard's long-distance provider. Frankly, the long-distance industry has profited handsomely from years of market control, and the high rates charged by the Big Three demonstrate that...