Word: scapegoat
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When Ford and Dole lost the election, former President Richard Nixon warned Dole that "it's getting to be scapegoat time and you're going to be blamed." Dole admits that the defeat depressed and soured him for a time. By early 1978, however, he was able to joke about the episode at a Washington Gridiron Club dinner. "I'll never forget the Dole-Mondale debate," he said. "Three empty chairs got up and walked out. I was supposed to go for the jugular...
Granted, the stress of playing for a 4-21 team makes it easier to designate a scapegoat. Frustration puts people on edge. But still, frustrations should never have allowed the players to nickname their coach "Sybil--women of 16 different responsibilities." No one sat or talked with her on the bus. She was ignored and scorned behind her back, laughed...
...sales. He points a finger at Luisi's former second-in-command, Michael Tremper, 42, another senior vice president. Tremper has agreed to help the company unravel its records in exchange for an agreement that the company will not sue him. Fisher claims that his client is a scapegoat. Says he: "Ms. Luisi has been singled out as responsible for a $30 million mistake that was beyond her responsibility...
...does not ring true. If anything, Locke's case should call attention to a disease currently pervading the current administration. Recurrent charges against aides to Gov. Edward J. King, and King's continued insistence on ignoring a major corruption report, suggest that Bery Locke was just an unlucky scapegoat. And von Bulow's trial was sensational in part because only rarely is a criminal of his economic and social stature actually brought to trial...
...believed the Shah to be in firm control, but the embassy's political officers were decidedly more pessimistic. Concluded a report that June: "The U.S. is supporting the Shah, hence religious ideologues attack the U.S. There are situations in which the U.S. could turn very swiftly into a scapegoat for Persian problems...