Word: blame
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Assigning blame for this confused state of affairs is like scolding two small boys for fighting over something that belongs to neither of them. Both sides share the guilt. The way that the five councillors chose to oust Curry established a bad precedent and was indiscreet. The city managership ought not to be a job which is actively sought after by one candidate or another. If there are councillors who are dissatisfied with the present manager, they ought to confront him and ask for changes. If this strategy fails, then they ought to look for someone else...
Arguing that inefficiency within the store is not to blame, Teele and other Coop officials in the three months since the meeting have provided their own answer. If it is correct, the Coop will need help from a number of sources within the University this term to prevent another massive textbook shortage next Fall...
White-Collar Aspirations. Unionleaders lay the blame on the paucity of Qualified Negro applicants, point out that a good skilled worker today may be as skilled as many laboratory technicians of 25 years ago. "When we find a Negro with the basic educational qualifications," says John Cinquemani, executive secretary of the Los Angeles Building Construction Trades Council, "he tends to look down on these fields and tries for a white-collar...
Sukarno, of course, is not really to blame for the program, for it was Military Strongman Abdul Haris Nasution's soldiers who approved the economic purge. But Nasution is happy enough to let Sukarno take credit-or blame-as undisputed "boss." So long as Sukarno is around as a still popular image among Indonesia's masses, Nasution has a buffer between the people's ire and the army. When, as may happen, the masses become disenchanted with Sukarno, Nasution has a readymade scapegoat...
...nothing to help end the New York City transit strike, President Johnson was on doubtful ground when he denounced the settlement as a violation of the Government's supposedly voluntary wage-price guidelines. Even more questionable was Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz's after-the-settlement attempt to blame beleaguered Republican Mayor John Lindsay for the guideline violation. The N.Y. Times described the remarks of Democrats Johnson and Wirtz as "blatantly political"-which of course they were. Yet even such editorial cavils served only to obscure some more basic questions-relating to the rather remarkable history of the guidelines...