Posts Tagged ‘blames’

Costa CEO blames captain error for ship grounding (AP)

An Italian firefighter helicopter airlifts a rescued passenger from the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia which ran aground off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. Firefighters worked Sunday to rescue a crew member with a suspected broken leg from the overturned hulk of the luxury cruise liner Costa Concordia, 36 hours after it ran aground. More than 40 people are still unaccounted-for. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP – The captain of the cruise ship that capsized off Tuscany made an unauthorized, unapproved deviation from its programmed course, a “human error” that led to the grounding of the vessel, the chief executive of the ship’s Italian owner said Monday. At least six people died in the incident.


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Obama blames GOP for upcoming tax increase (AP)

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. Partisan to the core, Congress careened toward a holiday-season standoff on legislation to prevent a Social Security payroll tax increase for 160 million workers on Jan. 1. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP – Continuing a tax cut of up to $40 a week for workers and unemployment benefits for millions of jobless hit a wall Tuesday as the House rejected a two-month extension of both, and President Barack Obama blamed Republicans for the stalemate.


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Corzine blames predecessors for MF Global’s fall (AP)

FILE - New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine reacts during an interview with The Associated Press at his home in Hoboken, N.J., in this Jan. 9, 2010 file photo. Corzine embodied one of the most prestigious positions in Washington: U.S. senator. On Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 he is scheduled to return to Capitol Hill in a humbled and humiliating role: a star witness likely to invoke the Fifth Amendment.  (AP Photo/Rich Schultz, File)AP – Jon Corzine will tell a House panel Thursday that he doesn’t know the location of client money that went missing when MF Global failed. And he will argue that he inherited a firm doomed by the risks his predecessors took.


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Adam Carolla blames Occupy Wall Street protests on culture of entitlement

He may have been the voice of reason for thousands of lost teens, but former “Loveline” host Adam Carolla is blasting the Occupy Wall Street crowd for being self-entitled and coddled.

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L’ville coach blames loss on video game

University of Louisville football coach Charlie Strong had an interesting explanation for his team’s home loss to Pittsburgh Saturday: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

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Obama blames plot to kill Saudi diplomat on Iran (AP)

AP – President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. will make sure that Iranian officials are held accountable for “reckless behavior” in what he said was their direct role in an alleged assassination plot against the Saudi Arabian ambassador in the United States.

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Romney blames Obama for economic uncertainty (AP)

FILE - In this June 30, 2011 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talks with reporters in Allentown, Pa. Forget his GOP primary opponents. Republican front-runner Romney is focused on a match-up against President Barack Obama. The former Massachusetts governor ignores swipes from his Republican rivals, criticizes Obama on the economy, and visits swing states like Ohio as often as states that vote early in the GOP primary.  (AP Photo/Rich Schultz, File)AP – Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says businesses can deal with bad news — it’s uncertainty that they struggle with. The GOP front-runner on Wednesday said policies from the past two years under President Barack Obama have contributed to more uncertainty and deepened the effects of the recession.


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