Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...differences, grunted with approval when Peter Thorneycroft, Tory President of the Board of Trade, quoted from the Manchester Guardian: "There is no easy Socialist remedy; there is no easy Capitalist one." But not the Bevanites. Led by fiery little Barbara Castle, as the debate passed midnight, they tried to blame everything on the Tories. She recited the familiar Bevanite bogeys: U.S. tariffs, U.S. "restrictions" on British trade with Russia. Everything would be fine, say the Bevanites, if Britain would reopen trade with Red China...
...Unfinished Three. Some of the blame belongs to the Air Force, and its costly indecision in choosing a site for the largest of the five bases. First it was persuaded by the French to settle on Ben Guerir, in the rocky flatlands at the foot of the Atlas Mountains. Then the Air Force switched the site to a place called Mechra Bel Ksiri, where $120,000 was spent before it was learned that Mechra Bel Ksiri is flooded for part of each year. Now the work is going forward again at Ben Guerir...
...market, apartment building has slowed to a crawl. Building costs have risen 70% in the past five years, and contractors are not willing now to risk the heavy outlay required and then find no tenants at the rents they would have to charge. House builders have another problem. They blame the slackened demand on Regulation X (they call it "Regulation Ax"), which requires down payments of 4% to 50%, and on a shortage of mortgage money. It. began to tighten up when Government bonds were unpegged a year ago, and interest rates started rising...
Many educators complain young people lack militant beliefs. If that is true, higher education is to blame. We are being robbed of taxes to bring forth a docile set of note-takers in the class room. There is no teaching of an absorbing faith in the things which made our country great. Today's generation--and add to this the parents--is ready to conform, either through fear, conviction, or, more likely than not, passivity. Belief in democracy is strong, yes, but inarticulate. We are being bankrupted by the wild spenders promoting the frills and flub-dubbery of new wrinkles...
...when, if ever, God sleeps. Sometimes they tackle such moral problems as the one that developed when Pamela let the dog indoors and it ate the family parakeet. There was agonized discussion about whether Pamela had, in effect, killed the parakeet herself or whether the dog alone was to blame. These juvenile soul-searchings have proved so attractive to listeners that, last week, the Illinois Meat Co. added new territory to the family by putting a transcribed 15-minute version of the Johnson chitchat over stations WCBS in New York, WTAM in Cleveland, and WXYZ in Detroit...