Word: faults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...approve of the president's handling of his job, an even lower number -- 25 percent -- approve of the Congress's doings. And when asked about who they blame for the gridlock in government, 48 percent pointed their finger at the Republicans; 32 percent said it was Clinton's fault...
...another admiral taken the fall over an incident that was actually the fault of those below him? Anyone who thinks that picking off admirals is an unfair tactic in the sexual-harassment wars should look at the 10-inch file in the Hansen case, and at the fact that it took the intervention of three members of Congress -- Senator Paul Wellstone and Representative Bruce Vento in addition to Durenberger -- to get the Navy brass to pay attention. Durenberger told TIME last week that the Navy still hasn't given him an unedited report on the Hansen case...
...government now seems to have only two alternatives: to continue its repressive tactics -- and risk further erosion of its support -- or to come to some sort of power-sharing agreement with Abiola. The most pessimistic analysis holds that failing to reach a compromise risks fracturing Nigeria along its ethnic fault lines, pushing it toward the sort of conflict not seen since the Biafran civil war, which claimed nearly 2 million lives during the late 1960s...
...despite a harshly worded letter from the district's superintendent to the researchers, Eaton and Orfield ultimately wrote that they had found fault with Montgomery's desegregation policies...
...didn't communicate clearly to them," he said. "That's my fault...