Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's two daughters are to blame for his relatively narrow margin...
...couldn't blame it all on the pass defense: after end Ken Boyda (shoulder separation) and halfback Dave Poe (concussion) were hurt on consecutive plays early in the second quarter, Harvard was hurting...
...despite Moses' estimate of 40 million. And then there are all those amusement concessions that have folded for want of customers. But, as usual, Moses knows just who is at fault. Last week, addressing a luncheon crowd of 250 newspaper publishers from upstate New York, he pinned the blame squarely in his usual Old Testament style. The trouble, pronounced Robert Moses, was a hostile New York press...
...city or state sales taxes. Though sales in most industries covered by the tax have steadily risen, many businessmen are convinced that expansion would have been much greater without the federal levy. Some industries claim to have been badly hit by the excise. It gets chief blame for the fact that more than 100 leather and luggage manufacturers have gone out of business since 1947 and that the fur industry has suffered a drop in union workers from 13,000 to 7,000 since 1946. Businessmen also complain that collecting the taxes requires extra time and money for which they...
...White Paper, the Education Ministry bewails the plight of the ronin-and passes the blame on to Japanese social rigidity. The country has 72 states and 188 private colleges, but the ronin aspire chiefly to get into only four of them: the state universities of Tokyo and Kyoto and the two leading private universities, Waseda and Keio. Because old school ties at these colleges are so strong-stronger than in the U.S.'s Ivy League and even than at England's Oxford and Cambridge-graduation from one of the four is a ticket of admission to good jobs...