Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Again we are blaming the Japanese for our economic problems. Your article is something else people can grasp as a reason for hate. It comes at a time when there is a tendency to blame Japan for a trade imbalance created by allowing our workers to become fat and lazy. The simple fact is that the United States has been priced out of the world market. In most industries our workers are not so productive as the Japanese, and our technology is not superior...
...Gower Champion will direct. The team that put together Stop the World -I Want to Get Off, Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, will be back with another marquee-macerating title, It's a Funny Old World We Live In, but the World's Not Entirely to Blame. Newley will play Everyman, as is his wont. Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death is a musical "of the street with street people" that takes an all-black look at the Promised Land called America...
...that at most I should be remonstrated for giving Elizabeth escape tips and that on one in the West had put me up to it, the indictment stood. In my last word before the judge and two-man jury I simply told them that I took all the blame for anything that I or Elizabeth might have done, but that there was no intent to injure the German Democratic Republic, and that I simply loved Elizabeth and was determined to keep her with me always. But after a two-day adjournment, the judge upheld the sentences--there would...
...been asked. I can't imagine that he couldn't make a great contribution." The obvious, but carefully unspoken implication was that if Meany declines to serve and sets organized labor to fighting the program in the courts or on the picket lines, he will be largely to blame for the failure of the most promising effort yet to check inflation...
Extraordinarily Inept. Mitchell's "decelerating rate of increase" is not to be discounted entirely; however misleading, it does represent progress of a sort-if the trend continues. But Nixon and Mitchell can take little credit for the improvement, just as they could not logically blame the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations for the rising crime rates of the early and middle 1960s. Crime is overwhelmingly the concern of local police agencies. Apart from trying to set up a framework of public order, and occasional FBI assistance, there is little the Federal Government can do to aid local law-enforcement agencies...