Word: culprit
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...wrestlers claim that Title IX is the culprit behind their decline. They argue that the law’s proportionality requirement forces men’s collegiate sports teams to disband in order to achieve numerical equality with women’s sports teams. Yet, while it may serve a university’s interests to use Title IX as an excuse for cutting funding to sports teams, there is nothing in the law or its enforcement guide that necessitates cutting men’s teams...
...editorial of February 12 (Editorial, “A Resource for Reconnaissance”). The opinions expressed were abominable to say the least. The editorial proposed that the U.S. should target foreign students to inform on possible weapons programs, naming China as the chief, but not only, culprit...
When WorldCom first owned up to its massive accounting fraud last summer, most observers of the once soaring telecom upstart figured its calls were numbered. Rivals like AT&T and Sprint were happy to close the book on a company they blame as the principal culprit in the telecom bubble--one that had posted curiously high profits that they could never quite seem to match. But six months after its dirty little secret of success was exposed and the company was left for dead, WorldCom is confounding both its critics and its competition--not only refusing to die but showing...
...travel plans--didn't start this year, nor did it even start on a ship. It began, as far as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) can tell, in Norwalk, Ohio, in October 1968, when 116 elementary-school children and teachers suddenly became ill. The CDC investigated, and the culprit was discovered to be a small, spherical, previously unclassified virus that scientists named, appropriately enough, the Norwalk virus...
This year posters supporting Chopra appeared before the start of the campaign, and “Rohit” was scrawled in red pencil on signs throughout the Yard. Chopra’s campaign denied responsibility and no culprit has been found...