Word: faults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fortunately for our planet, SGR1900+14 is 20 light-years away. Its radiation was so weakened by the time it got here that its X rays and gamma rays couldn't penetrate the atmosphere. No one was harmed--except, perhaps, for textbook publishers, who are suddenly, through no fault of their own, out of date...
Madness on the Couch plumbs how psychotherapy in the 1960s evolved into "an orgy of parent-bashing." Although psychoanalysts changed what parental behaviors were "psychotic-inducing" with the capriciousness that designers of their same era changed hemlines, their theories always retained one constant: the mother was at fault each time. Mainstream thinking dictated that "mechanized and maladroit" (so called "refridgerator" mothers) produced autistic and schizophrenic children. Other Rosen-type psychoanalysts would also blame the victims and their weakness to fend madness off. But there were no statistics, let alone control groups to back such theories. Often, all these psychotherapists relied...
...Beth Stewart's fault. It's HCS'sfault. It's annoying that we paid $3,000 to writea program that's faulty," Barber said...
...peak of its borrowing, the secretive fund reportedly carried a debt load 100 times as great as its net assets, or ownership capital. This would be like putting down $1,000 of your own money to buy a $100,000 house--in a flood plain on the San Andreas fault. "Most hedge-fund managers believe that a leverage ratio in excess of 50 to 1 is exceptionally large and very risky," says Hunt Taylor, executive director of Tass Management, a hedge-fund consulting firm...
...like to say in my daily online column: Wrong! Sure, some people shift in and out of stocks so rapidly that they undermine their returns. Some people also gamble compulsively. Others drink too much or abuse drugs. Overdoing anything can be hazardous. But overtrading is no more the fault of low-cost, online investing than America's swelling waistlines are the fault of its ever more efficient farmers...