Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shrill Campuses. With more passion than logic, other businessmen blame Watergate for the poor business climate. But the shrillest cries for the President's removal come from the campuses. Student demonstrations are lackadaisical by the standards of the late '60s, but petitions are circulating in just about every school in the Midwest, and campus papers are having a field...
...views illustrate how public opinion in this farming community (pop. 8,440) has hardened among some people. Those who were suspicious of Nixon now totally distrust him. But many still defend him and are insistent that the liberal news media are partly to blame. Farmer Carl Sensabaugh, 69, and his wife Katrina, 70, still pay more attention to the price of chicken feed, but are concerned about what is going on in Washington. He says: "I don't keep up with it except on TV, but I kinda feel like if they would leave the President alone...
...could blame the Jaworskis for having reservations about the new post. Last May, Jaworski had said he was not interested in the job when he, among others, was sounded out by the Administration before Cox was named. "I did not feel at the time that the independence was there," he explains. "But now I'm not prohibited from taking any action I feel should be taken...
...Passing Blame. The deal reflected the eagerness of both governments to end the affair, if only for economic reasons. The South Koreans are heavily dependent on the Japanese economically, while the Japanese were getting jittery about their vast investments ($350 million) in South Korea, which are now greater than those of the U.S. The settlement cleared the way for a long-delayed ministerial conference to decide on new Japanese aid commitments. Moreover, it allowed the Park regime to pass the blame to an expendable underling, and permitted the Japanese government to find "cause for congratulation" that "the victim...
...that 44 of the subjects had survived the stress of relocation intact, while the rest had deteriorated markedly. The intact group turned out to share nine traits: high activity, aggression, narcissistic body images, authoritarian personalities, high status drive, distrust of others, disregard for others' viewpoints, a tendency to blame others and a resistance to blaming themselves. One might ask, however, whether living longer is worth the price of becoming such a person. Lieberman, who describes himself as an increasingly "tender and passive person," questions it, but then he is still only...