Word: scapegoat
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Company executives counterpunched with arguments that the reported gains were misleadingly big and that profits really have been rising too slowly. Said R. Heath Larry, president of the National Association of Manufacturers: "We will not become the scapegoat of the Administration. High profits are not inflationary; they promote new technology and investment, reduce pressure on the credit market and lift corporate taxes. You have to feed the cow instead of kicking it if you want the milk...
...expect a similar response from our side. We're like the CIA. If we have ten activities and nine of them are successful, only the failure gets worldwide attention. You never hear the good things we do. Some people think that to improve the country they need a scapegoat. For them, SAVAK is the scapegoat...
...roots, and wives and children are viewed as dependents, marginal to the all-male authoritarian structure of the military. Children move from school to school so frequently that "they have to break into peer groups repeatedly as the 'new kid' and are often the school's scapegoat." According to LaGrone, part of the problem is not the military's fault: the Army life attracts men from authoritarian families, who pass on harsh child-rearing behavior to their sons and daughters...
...cynical '70s Kennedy fell victim to history's need of a scapegoat. The nation was sick, disillusioned, embittered. Idealism had given way to disappointment and the sins of Johnson and Nixon were visited upon Kennedy. He was portrayed as the villain of the piece...
...long ago that Turkey had to bear the brunt of American pressure because of its poppy cultivation. Turkey then was an easy scapegoat for the concerned parents of American drug addicts and the U.S. administration. It is certainly ironic that "Midnight Express" puts the country once again in the culprit's seat: this time not because it is lax in its regulation of opium cultivation, but because it is harsh with misguided foreigners who try to smuggle hashish out of the country. If Billy Hayes got a "raw deal" from the Turkish government, this was due not to any wickedness...