Word: scapegoat
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...When economic times are bad, people look for someone to blame,” Oster explained. “The fact that there were more trials during worse weather means that witches were a scapegoat...
Right or wrong, Arafat has long been derided by Israelis and Americans as the main obstacle to peace in th region, but critics can no longer rely on him as the all-too easy scapegoat for failed peace initiatives. It is time to look ahead toward the promise of peace instead of repeatedly rehashing the battles of the past. The U.S. and Israel, along with a newly elected Palestinian leadership, must press forward with the long-abandoned peace process with renewed engagement and spirit of cooperation. For its part, Israel must recognize and support the upcoming Palestinian elections in order...
...Final Clubs have instead become the scapegoat for a much larger issue. Groups at Harvard tend to target a small aspect of the Harvard community that they can reform. But in this case rather than making scapegoats out of groups that are merely representative of a larger, more troublesome reality, the focus should be on changing the system as a whole...
...don’t think so and I don’t know why entirely. I don’t want to scapegoat the media because it’s a tough job, but when you have campaigns that won’t talk to the media—when campaigns hide the candidate and literally won’t let them answer questions—the media has to figure out a way to overcome that. Politicians try to get away with things and the campaigns do, they try to get an edge, and I think the media just...
...communist Laos. Union leaders, of course, don't see the labor rules as overly protectionist. Dita Indah Sari, a longtime labor activist and chairperson of the Front Nasional Perjuangan Buruh Indonesia union, says current law doesn't go far enough to protect workers. Business and government leaders "shouldn't scapegoat the workers to hide their economic failures," says Sari, who blames the country's lackluster performance on corruption and bureaucracy...