Word: scapegoat
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What do you do when your banking system is overwhelmed by capitalist symptoms like cash shortages, a depreciating currency and rampant credit expansion? You blame your top banker. The designated scapegoat is Li Guixian, governor of the People's Bank of China. He will be replaced -- temporarily -- by Vice Premier Zhu Rongji, the man in charge of China's economy...
...propagation of scandal. In his letter John Paul bluntly criticized the U.S. media, charging them with making matters worse by their treatment of the problem. "Evil can indeed be sensational, but the sensationalism surrounding it is always dangerous for morality." The licentiousness of the secular world is another scapegoat. Last week Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the Vatican's chief spokesman, said, "One would have to ask if the real culprit is not a society that is irresponsibly permissive, hyperinflated with sexuality ((and)) capable of creating circumstances that induce even people who have received a solid moral formation to commit grave moral...
...jury. Many observers predicted a split verdict -- a slap at most for Briseno and Timothy Wind, something sterner for Koon and especially Powell, who struck the most blows. Powell's attorney Michael Stone tacitly acknowledged this scenario in a closing statement pleading that his client not be made a scapegoat...
News of the editorial shake-up comes in the wake of a much-publicized controversy over an article cut from the January/February issue of the Review. Mark Stahlman, the writer of the article, "Why IBM Failed," said Harris has become a scapegoat for a journal marred by excessive faculty influence of editorial policy...
Bean-Bayog claimed to be a scapegoat in the case of a severely depressed medical student, whom she described as violent and dangerous. Lozano's suicide came three months before hewas scheduled to graduate from medical school...