1.   Already, officials across the region are attributing a weakness in local tourism industries and in local currencies to jitters about contagion from Zimbabwe.

2.   Analysts attributed the weakness in retail sales, in part, to people staying home to watch the Olympics on television.

3.   IBM also attributed the weakness to a sales decline in Asia and the effects of a higher dollar.

4.   It is common here to attribute this weakness to physical deficiencies in Chinese people, but the real explanation lies in the quality of conservatory faculty and students.

5.   Publishers of the New York City tabloids particularly attributed the weakness in newspaper readership in the latest six-month period to the absence of baseball and hockey coverage.

6.   With the outcome of the election still being contested, Bush and his associates jumped at the opportunity to attribute the weakness to the Democratic administration.

7.   Other dealers attributed the weakness of the Singapore dollar against the greenback, as Asian currencies tracked the falling Japanese yen for the third straight day.

8.   He attributed the weakness of the dollar against the yen to speculative liquidations and the continuation of positions taken Thursday.

9.   A dealer attributed the weakness in the rand to the release late Thursday of worse-than-expected money supply figures.

10.   Dealers attributed the weakness to jitters about the US-Japanese trade fight in the consumer photography market.