Word: blame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their slightly more scientific brethren, known as sociologists, would pin the blame instead on broken homes, bad education, two-career families, and the premature influence of the sex-filled mass media. The diagnoses of both sociologists and moralists imply that we need to rebuild teens' social environments to condition young adults better. This is not a constructive recommendation, because it rests on the assumption of moral or social decay. Claiming that things were better in the good old days gets us nowhere...
...entire American college and university community is in the grips of an intractable long-term supply problem. There just aren't enough bodies to go around. Black students perennially push to see more Black faculty, but almost none of them want to become Black faculty. And who can blame them, when the Sirens of Wall Street beckon so seductively...
...women who, despite negative Pap smears, turned out to have cervical cancer. ( Some have died; others have been forced to have hysterectomies. Had the disease been caught early, minor surgery could have sufficed. Pap smears miss between 20% and 40% of cancerous and precancerous specimens. Most often, the blame is laid on harried technicians who, paid according to the number of samples they process, may scan more than 100 slides a day with few breaks in so-called Pap-mill laboratories...
...strange that Shinagel would blame the press, arguably the greatest defender of free speech, for interfering with free expression. Speaking to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Shinagel noted that at baseball games, when a fan jumps out of the bleachers and onto the field, the television cameras don't usually focus on the errant fan. Shinagel reasons that by ignoring objectionable behavior, the press would help curtail such incidents. People who wouldn't be deterred by a night in jail and a trip to court would think twice if they knew they wouldn't get any free publicity...
...another development yesterday, an Israeli newspaper said an army inquiry into the killing of a Jewish settler girl in the West Bank village of Beita last week indirectly would blame the shooting on the Jewish guard Roman Aldubi, who was knocked out by a rock during the melee and remains hospitalized...