Word: scapegoat
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...private briefings by his officials defeat his real purpose? Or was the combined effort, public and private, an astute attempt to pressure Congress into providing the money, or at least some of it? Or, despite his protestations to the contrary, was Ford setting up Congress to be the scapegoat if it did not provide the funds and South Viet Nam fell? Whatever the answers, the episode was one of the most extraordinary gambits in the tortuous history of a wretched and confusing...
...blame the decline in minority applications on alumni hostility or even alumni ineffectiveness as the Crimson editorial appears to do is simply not true. Even more serious, however, this attempt to find an easy scapegoat for the decline in minority interest in Harvard does a real disservice to our continuing efforts to identify the problems of recruiting and to redress them...
...avoid being made the scapegoat and to protect its chances of getting U.S. aid, the Israeli government, early in the week, launched a campaign to dodge any blame for the failure of the talks. Rabin eagerly explained Israel's position (see interview page...
...controlled zones of Cambodia, the morale of the civilian population has never been lower. At the provincial capital of Battambang, for instance, students protesting the rising price of rice rioted for two days against the Chinese population, which forms the bulk of the merchant class and is an easy scapegoat. When 20 of their number were then arrested in a military crackdown, the students seized an airport commander and held him until Premier Long Beret flew over from Phnom-Penh and worked out a mutual release. By week's end the anti-Chinese feeling seemed to be spreading...
...University build low cost housing in Cambridge. Nor is it possible to imagine strolling through areas surrounding Harvard and feeling the heat from tenants as rich grad students outbid them for their homes. But before the days of rent control (an ineffective mechanism that effectively eliminated Harvard as a scapegoat for fluctuating rents) when some students cared more about non-existent community housing than cramped University quarters, or bad food, there was enough student pressure on the University to force it to explain why it was tearing down someone's low cost dwelling...