Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even more devastating to the network's pride, if not its bottom line, is the ( sinking status of the CBS Evening News, which has been overtaken in popularity for the past two months by ABC's World News Tonight. Some network executives blame the decline on weak lead-in programming on local CBS stations around the country. Others cite ABC's widely praised coverage of the San Francisco earthquake, a bonus of its presence at the World Series...
...blank check strategy for negotiating concert appearances was used by last year's council to sponsor performances by reggae artist Jimmy Cliff and folk star Suzanne Vega. But many council members blame the strategy for the $20,000 the council lost on the poorly-attended Vega show...
...Kommerzielle Koordination, through which the funds were funneled. Last week Schalck-Golodkowski surfaced in West Berlin, offering to return some of the funds and promising to fight any attempt by East Germany to have him extradited. Crimes involving hard currency are especially offensive to ordinary East Germans, who blame its scarcity for much of their economic hardship over the years...
...financier Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings & Loan Association, whose collapse could cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. Last week Wall finally bowed to the pressure and resigned as director of the Office of Thrift Supervision. He had been victimized, Wall complained, by "simplistic efforts to find a scapegoat to shoulder the blame for the entire thrift crisis...
Inspector Edward Fowler said he was not sure what caused the fire, but he said faulty wiring in the kitchen ceiling may have been to blame...