Word: blame
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...waking nightmare: a health issue that swamped the candidate's message and dominated the news just days before the first votes were to be cast. And Bradley had no one to blame for the timing but himself. By choosing not to disclose the episodes earlier, he had effectively ceded control of the issue, ensuring it would blow up whenever a reporter happened...
...blame them? After all, emergency departments must treat any patient, regardless of his or her ability to pay. And most of us would like to think that in the event of an accident or sudden illness, an ambulance would be on the scene in minutes to whisk us off to the emergency department, where doctors would be at the ready...
There is another sizable chunk of the holiday market still left to be served--the procrastinators. E-commerce traffic began to taper off in mid-December as shoppers worried that online deliveries wouldn't arrive on time. Who could blame them? Wal-Mart and others warned Web shoppers as early as Dec. 12 that they couldn't guarantee delivery by Dec. 25. But with overnight delivery, Weiner says, "I don't see any reason why the Net couldn't serve that last-minute shopper." Better get cracking on that back end. --With reporting by Jacqueline Savaiano/Los Angeles
...federal government--whose judges and juries may be equally biased--obscures the states' responsibilities to reform their own justice systems. The right way to fight gender-related violence is through better use of the VAWA's provisions promoting training of judges and police officers, not through shifting all the blame and transferring all the power...
DIXIELAND DOWNER A nationwide study finds Southerners are more likely to have high blood pressure than folks living elsewhere in the country. The worst off: those in the rural South. Limited access to health care may be partly to blame, but the Southern diet--rich in salty, fried foods--no doubt plays a role...