Word: scapegoat
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Business School Professor Robin M. Greenwood said that Goldman is a “convenient target” for people who are looking for a scapegoat in the wake of the crisis...
Reflecting on Harvard’s internship search process, which for many juniors started as early as last fall, reveals how absurdly stressful recruiting is. “Blame it on the economy” is the present mantra: an exogenous scapegoat for the tribulations of recruiting. However, structural failures in the Office of Career Services’ “On-Campus Recruiting” platform are presently more detrimental to the system’s efficiency at pairing applicants and employers. And thus, each year, many qualified applicants are left offer-less, and even students who do manage...
...Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has outright accused China of manipulating the renminbi and most (though not all) economists believe that China's currency needs to rise versus the dollar. But at a moment when U.S. unemployment is close to 10%, Beijing feels that it is being made a scapegoat for economic problems that are, let's face it, very much made in the U.S.A. It has fired back fiercely. Premier Wen has called any talk about currency revaluation a form of "protectionism." His Commerce Minister later added that in any dispute between the two countries, "Americans and American companies" would...
...domestic companies. Burdened by high unemployment and facing mid-term elections in November, some people in the U.S. are trying to shift public attention from thorny political and economic issues to other countries. However, such irresponsible moves will prove to be unhelpful, and China will not accept being a scapegoat...
Former President Mohammed Khatami, a supporter of the opposition Green Movement, bluntly said in a recent speech, "[Khomeini] should not be used as a scapegoat." The newspaper Abrar, part of the beleaguered reformist media, wondered aloud what punishment would have befallen a newspaper like itself if it had displayed an image of revolutionary desecration like the one being repeatedly shown on state television. (Additionally, a video of pictures of Khomeini, Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad being set afire is circulating outside of Iran. Unlike the torn-poster video, however, the fire video has not been shown...