Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selfishness to blame? In truth, the 1988 legislation was badly flawed, albeit well-intentioned. Reflecting the read-my-lips era, Congress mistakenly insisted that catastrophic insurance had to be self-financing, with none of the subsidy coming from general tax revenues. Small wonder that the most prosperous Medicare recipients, largely protected by private health insurance, rebelled against being singled out to aid the less fortunate. That responsibility should rest with all taxpayers. Despite the phony fixation on fiscal gimmicks, broad-based taxation remains the fairest way to fund federal programs. It is a principle that Congress and the White House...
...only the presidents of major corporations, the effort to evade responsibility would not have been tolerated by society," says Earl Shelp, executive director of Houston's Foundation for Interfaith Research and Ministry. Additionally, society's sense of financial obligation -- not to mention its compassion -- has been diminished by a blame-the-victim syndrome. "I think that there is a tendency to discount a situation if one feels that an infected person's condition could have been avoided," says Dr. Kathleen Nolan of the Hastings Center in Briarcliff, N.Y. Alluding to the disease's long incubation period -- frequently ten years...
...fact, 25 Harvard men revived Sigma Alpha Mu on this campus because they had not found a better way to fulfill that need, then we, sadly, must at least be partly to blame. Ethan A. Budin '90 Jack S. Levy '92 Co-Chairs, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Social Committee
...actively religious but the securityof the idea of God held an appeal for her. If Godexisted at the very least she would repent and beforgiven; and the most she would be absolutelyabsolved from blame. The time she ahd spent inchurch ahd been restful and contemplative,however. She had enjoyed the way the light hadseemed to crash vigorously into the stained glasswindows only to be diffused into blues and yellowswhich filtered easily into the church. The lightsat in the people's hair as they lined up in thepews. It was the ritual that had driven her fromthe church, the Mass...
Last week the U.S. attempted to lay blame for the policy impasse on Hanoi's doorstep. Said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher: "We believe that Viet Nam cannot evade its responsibility to help achieve a comprehensive political solution in Cambodia." Until now, the U.S. led Hanoi to believe that the withdrawal of its troops from Cambodia would be enough to rescue Viet Nam from its international isolation. But with that formulation, Washington destroyed Hanoi's hopes for prompt normalization of relations with the outside world and an end to the trade embargo that has wrecked Viet Nam's economy...