Word: blame
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Well, in Margaret's version, she always sounds like she is just complaining about how he was not a good enough father. I mean, yeah, she tries to make it all sound nice, and says she does not want to blame her dad for much, but then she goes on and on about how crazy she was and how her father didn't help. Ya know, I just hate phoney people, and Margaret just seems to be phoney about everything. She always talks about high school and middle school and her babysitters, and how damaging her father...
Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee professor of government and the press at the KSG and the co-director of the Vanishing Voter Project, also placed some of the blame on politicians and their perceived lack of character...
...Harbor Bridge in May calling for reconciliation with Aborigines--the largest political demonstration in the country's history. In August former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser called for a national apology for the "stolen generations." Prime Minister Howard answered that modern Australians "shouldn't be required to accept guilt and blame for past actions." Last month two Aborigines lost a court case in Darwin in which they sought compensation from the government for being removed from their families as children...
...write triumphalist history in an age of revisionism and rigid identity politics. America's Industrial Revolution, once celebrated by statesmen and poets alike, differs markedly from a subject like World War II, with its clear consensus about good and evil. Ambrose's latest saga is not a historical blame game played by today's rules. Still, the author has more respect for the past than to pretend that the transcontinental railroad could have been built without financial corruption, treacherous working conditions, the blood and sweat of scoundrels and bigots, and the killing of Indians who fought the iron horsemen because...
...level, you can hardly blame the major party candidates. The shoppers, the commuters, the high-tech employees and, yes, the soccer moms--they are registered voters, likely to vote but unsure for whom. They may be fickle, but they have influence too; not quite like the AARP and its waving fields of gray, but a powerful constituency nonetheless. It's why Medicare, prescription drug importation and income tax credits fill the candidates' speeches, even when they are held in school auditoriums and on city streets...