Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spend time in Tripoli and Benghazi before flying to Beirut with a fresh impression of Gaddafi's domain. "It's never been easy covering the Arab Middle East," Griggs says. "But by and large the Arabs are a friendly and charming people who don't blame you personally for U.S. backing of Israel...
While rising student affluence may have made theft more lucrative, campus police blame the increase in incidents on the off-campus drug culture and more open dormitories on campus. Says Police Chief Robert Tonis of Harvard: "A great deal is due to desperate people"-teenagers who are paying for their habits. Moreover, the greater impersonality of campuses, caused by the expanded enrollment in the 1960s, makes it easier for intruders to masquerade as students. In addition, says Security Director Paul Doebel of the University of Illinois: "We encounter a great deal of naiveté about security among students, as well...
...underrepresented group. On the other hand, so long as we are willing to make the effort, we can maintain a policy that will be scrupulously fair and unbiased while simultaneously enriching the quality of our Faculty and staff. If we fail to do so, we have no one to blame but ourselves...
...More importantly, there was a serious lack of publicity. Some undergraduates were completely unaware of the strike until Monday morning. Many were ignorant of the issues involved. The blame for this has to lie with the Union. Last Spring, the graduate students made their position clear to the undergraduates and demonstrated effectively how all students would suffer if their demands were not met. This year the undergraduates were largely ignored until a day or two before the strike...
...Nursing our economic wounds, preoccupied with domestic issues, uncertain of our position in the world," Schaetzel claims, "we have become more annoyed with our allies than with our enemies." Nonetheless, he adds that the U.S. is not solely to blame: "All of the countries have become egocentric...