Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impossible promises are being made, if some alumni actually believe that the College has let down the academic bars, part of the blame must rest with the Administration. Its policies--which must surely sound naive to many citizens of this country--stand in need of constant explanation and publicity. After all, one cannot expect the average American to believe on first hearing that Harvard expects to get its scholar-athletes without so much as dangling a convertible now and then...
...this book has been asking himself what went wrong. His answer: not just the blunders of a little clique in the State Department, though they proved to be tragic enough. Herrymon Maurer, for five years (1942-47) a FORTUNE editor and Asia specialist for that magazine, puts the big blame on the well-meaning, wrongheaded arrogance of the West in general. His Collision of East and West is a pithy, provocative account of how to lose friends and alienate whole peoples...
...Travel Department of the N. S. A. which incurred a deficit of several thousand dollars last year, not the whole organization. The principle cause of the deficit, Houghteling said, was the miscarriage of some of the travel plans, but poor work of the Department's bookkeeper was also to blame...
Your views in connection with the British activities in Iran are quite accurate, but you actually cannot blame the State Department since they . . . tried to persuade Mr. Attlee during his visit to Washington approximately three months ago to reach an agreement with Iran similar to the agreement reached with King Ibn Saud by Aramco...
Unquestionably, business was hard hit by credit restrictions. But that had been their purpose - to cut buying. Many businessmen, notably auto dealers, could also blame themselves for poor business ; they had let their selling skills grow rusty...