11.   Farm worker advocates charge that counterfeit documents offer a convenient excuse for growers.

12.   For a long time, the budget was a convenient excuse.

13.   Instead of key buckets, the Rockets could only come up with convenient excuses, like injuries.

14.   It provided a convenient excuse to get away from the straight-ahead blocking schemes that Schottenheimer always liked.

15.   Knocks that I consider to be the stereotypical convenient excuses that rarely apply to white coaches.

16.   Lukas and jockey Pat Day blame the racing surface, usually a convenient excuse.

17.   Maybe the money thing is just too convenient an excuse.

18.   Minorities, however, say the issue of nonperformance is a convenient excuse.

19.   Nevertheless, Cianci said he teased Menino for coming up with a convenient excuse to stay home.

20.   Others, however, argue that the Fed Chairman Greenspan may find recent mixed economic information a convenient excuse not to raise rates.