Word: scapegoatism
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Nero said she is being made the scapegoat for countless vehicular indiscretions on the part of Phillips Brooks House drivers. She alleged that King himself had violated the vehicles policy on more than one occasion, a charge the president denied...
...political pro, would be given a large role at the Democratic National Committee. Hurt and angry, Wilhelm then announced that he would go home to Chicago after this fall's congressional elections. Wilhelm's fate made for constant speculation inside the Beltway. The Clinton loyalist has been made a scapegoat for election losses since 1992 and is disdained by Democrats who believe he wasn't doing enough to prevent a rout in November's ballot. Some congressional Democrats complained that Wilhelm was so intent on using D.N.C. funds to promote Clinton programs like health-care reform that he has given...
...ultimate targets of the antiwelfare rhetoric are women, and not only the poor. Going after upscale women can still be a political faux pas, as Dan Quayle discovered. But the welfare mother makes an ideal scapegoat for the imagined sins of womankind in general. She's officially manless, in defiance of the patriarchal norm, just like any brazen executive-class single mother by choice. At the same time, she's irritatingly "dependent," like the old- fashioned, cookie-baking mom. But unlike her more upscale sisters, the welfare mom is too poor and despised to mount a defense. And unlike Anita...
...recent weeks, however, Dime borrowers andlegal experts have suggested that federalinvestigators were wrong to target Walsh. Theysaid employees of the bank may have perpetratedthe fraud, and that Walsh was used as a scapegoat...
...Florida's largest home builder, Lennar would seem to be the perfect scapegoat for someone looking for a good story like Ms. Carrier. But as the prosecutors concluded, "while it would be convenient and perhaps publicly soothing to blame Lennar for the destruction wrought by Hurricane Andrew at the properties investigated, it would not be fair or accurate." Not even Homestead Air Force Base could withstand the record 120-mile-an-hour winds of the unprecedented hurricane, and Florida Power and Light's concrete utility poles, built to resist 165-mile-an-hour winds, snapped like toothpicks...