Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congratulations for your excellent article about the foreign labor situation in Switzerland. After 2½ years in the U.S., I recently returned to my native country and was ashamed of the treatment of the foreign residents. I blame the present situation on Swiss industry, which prefers importing cheap labor to making investments for modernization and mechanization...
...course, the blame for inefficiency and rising prices does not belong entirely to businessmen. Labor as contributed to excessive costs and inflation by demanding higher wages, opposing automation, and restricting entry by younger workers. Roughly two-thirds of all dockworkers are now over 40. Their whole system of payment is geared to heavy wages for overtime and much lower pay for normal hours. By "welting"--taking shifts at the local pub on company time--workers are able to prolong work until the weekend when they will receive higher rates. Some companies are so "dispirited" by these costly delays, says...
...turned the cameras on the kind of confusion that the press has always created in similar circumstances," he said. "And for the first time, the public was able to see how all of the press operates. What we did was show the confusion, and therefore we got the blame...
...putting the blame for his assassination on anyone," Nakasa added, "but circumstances should be such that a man can say what he thinks without getting killed...
Predictably, the report lays most of the blame for the losing campaign on Candidates Barry Goldwater and William Miller, who "shifted emphasis erratically from day to day, achieving little continuity and no momentum. Issues were selected and articulated at the very times and places where they would do the ticket the most harm." Goldwater "read his speeches stoically and unenthusiastically. His rhetoric confused the debate and left him terribly vulnerable to charges of name-calling, smearing and carelessness." Moreover, says the report, the "Goldwater leadership clique" exercised "an oppressive exclusiveness that put loyalty to a small cabal ahead of loyalty...