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Word: scapegoats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charges Against Overseer Candidate Were Unfair and Unsubstantiated | 5/11/1994 | See Source »

Special envoy to Haiti canned as scapegoat for failed U.S. policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: May 9, 1994 | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

Legal experts have suggested in the weeks since Walsh's conviction that he may actually have been a scapegoat for Dime Savings, the bank he was convicted of defrauding...

Author: By Julie H. Park, | Title: Walsh Clings to Council Seat | 5/5/1994 | See Source »

...borrowers and legal experts said Dime may actually have perpetrated the fraud, and that Walsh was merely used as the scapegoat...

Author: By Julie H. Park, | Title: Experts Suggest Walsh is innocent | 5/4/1994 | See Source »

Allegations have arisen that Fay has been made a scapegoat, and that corporal punishment for his case is excessive even by Singaporean standards...

Author: By Alec Permison, | Title: Beating Back Inhumanity | 4/26/1994 | See Source »

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