Word: blame
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...trade and farm officials haven't adopted the newly negative line on biofuels. Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson insists that the 10% target is still attainable and argues that the E.U.'s biofuels policy has had only a minimal impact on world food prices. Mandelson has tried to shift the blame to the U.S. and the subsidies that are driving up to one third of its maize crop into ethanol production...
...measure, pleaded with Obama to come back. His staff did too. But Obama, who had previously supported the bill, refused to return for the vote on grounds that his 18-month-old daughter was sick. When the bill lost narrowly, Obama came in for a large share of the blame. Rush, whose 29-year-old son had been gunned down on the South Side a couple of months earlier, said there was no excuse for missing "one of the most important votes in memory...
...said while he is pessimistic about political issues and global warming, when it comes to personal life he tends to be optimistic, based on some of the studies’ definition of optimism that a person is optimistic if he or she does not assume blame for negative events. “When things go wrong, I blame others,” he joked. —Staff writer Synne D. Chapman can be reached at chapman2@fas.harvard.edu...
...things up. Have witnesses in the room to verify his denials. Put it in writing. In essence, Rumsfeld was covering his rear. He was setting up his chain of denials should his actions ever be questioned. And worse yet, in my mind, he was attempting to level all the blame on his generals...
...parents, and they're famous for being bad parents. So, there's been a license to trash them. And it's cruel." In the documentary, the couple reveal the type of hate mail they've received. One writer called them "scum" and said their "drunken arrogance" was to blame for their missing "brat...